The Uruk period (c. 4000 to 3100 BC; also known as Protoliterate period) existed from the protohistoric Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age period in the...
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(19 mi) east of modern Samawah, Al-Muthannā, Iraq. Uruk is the type site for the Uruk period. Uruk played a leading role in the early urbanization of...
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recorded name of a person in writing. The name "Kushim" is found on several Uruk period (c. 3400–3000 BC) clay tablets used to record transactions of barley...
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Look up Uruk in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Uruk was a city in ancient Sumer. Uruk may also refer to: Uruk period, the archaeological culture or time...
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Sumer (section Uruk period)
come from the Sumerian cities of Uruk and Jemdet Nasr, and date to between c. 3350 – c. 2500 BC, following a period of proto-writing c. 4000 – c. 2500...
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History of Sumer (redirect from First Dynasty of Uruk)
identified with the Ubaid period, but it is not known whether or not these were Sumerians (associated later with the Uruk period). Dates are approximate...
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preceding Uruk period and continues into the Early Dynastic I period. Jemdet Nasr Abu Salabikh Tell Fara Tell Uqair Khafajah Nippur Ur Uruk In the early...
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replaced by the Uruk period. In Northern Mesopotamia the period runs only between about 5300 and 4300 BC. It is preceded by the Halaf period and the Halaf-Ubaid...
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History of Mesopotamia (section Uruk period)
Uruk period. Uruk period "King-Priest" In North Mesopotamia the period runs only between about 5300 and 4300 BC. It is preceded by the Halaf period and...
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that is generally dated to c. 2900 – c. 2350 BC and was preceded by the Uruk and Jemdet Nasr periods. It saw the development of writing and the formation...
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Inanna (category Uruk period)
and Papsukkal. Inanna was worshipped in Sumer at least as early as the Uruk period (c. 4000 – 3100 BCE), and her cultic activity was relatively localized...
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fragmentary slab at the Uruk site of Hacınebi has been proposed as a numerical tablet. The earliest tablets found, in the Uruk V period, are of a 'numerical'...
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Enmerkar (category Kings of Uruk)
writing. The tradition of Enmerkar as the founder of Uruk seems to date from the Jemdet Nasr period (3100-2900 BC) as found in the Ad-gi4 list. The lexical...
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Late Uruk (Uruk IV, c. 3350–3200 BC) period. The same "Priest-King" in visible in several Mesopotamian works of art of the end of the Uruk period, such...
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Akkadian Empire (redirect from Akkad dynasty period)
from the Uruk of the late-Uruk period to the Ebla of the royal archives, to the very state formations of the Sumerian south in the period called in fact...
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Susa (category Uruk period)
Louvre Susa came within the Uruk cultural sphere during the Uruk period. An imitation of the entire state apparatus of Uruk, proto-writing, cylinder seals...
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Neolithic (redirect from Neolithic Period)
Ubaid 3/4 (Mesopotamia, 4500–4000 BC) early Uruk period (Mesopotamia, 4000–3800 BC) middle Uruk period (Mesopotamia, 3800–3400 BC) late Trypillian (Eastern...
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practices. According to Archibald Sayce, the primitive pictographs of the Uruk period era suggest that "Stone was scarce, but was already cut into blocks and...
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The Early Dynastic Period, also known as Archaic Period or the Thinite Period (from Thinis, the hometown of its rulers), is the era of ancient Egypt that...
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Mesopotamia, and they had to coexist with other less powerful kingdoms (such as Uruk, Babylon, and Mankisum), while further north their influence was non-existent...
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List of time periods (redirect from Time period)
culture Halaf-Ubaid Transitional period Ubaid period Uruk period Jemdet Nasr period (3100 BC – 2900 BC) Early Dynastic Period (2900 BC – 2270 BC) Akkadian...
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that thrived during the Uruk period around 4200-3000 BCE.: 40 The city continued to develop into the Early Dynastic Period (Mesopotamia) around 2900-2350...
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later Uruk IV period, around 3200 BCE. The Kushim tablets from the same period feature possibly the oldest named person (Kushim). Another Uruk Period clay...
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Mesopotamia (section Periodization)
(~6000–5300 BC) Ubaid period (~6500–4000 BC) Uruk period (~4000–3100 BC) Jemdet Nasr period (~3100–2900 BC) Early Bronze Age Early Dynastic period (~2900–2350 BC)...
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Tell Brak (category Uruk period)
in size at the beginning of the third millennium BC with the end of Uruk period, before expanding again around c. 2600 BC, when it became known as Nagar...
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of the composition running from Uruk II to Ur III. The majority of the sources are dated to the Old Babylonian period (early second millennium BC), and...
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Gilgamesh (redirect from Gilgamesh of Uruk)
city-state of Uruk, who was posthumously deified. His rule probably would have taken place sometime in the beginning of the Early Dynastic Period, c. 2900...
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Chalcolithic (redirect from Eneolithic Period)
Chalcolithic (also called the Copper Age and Eneolithic) was an archaeological period characterized by the increasing use of smelted copper. It followed the Neolithic...
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Sargon of Akkad (redirect from Battle of Uruk)
Enlil: he defeated the city of Uruk and tore down its walls, in the battle of Uruk he won, took Lugalzagesi king of Uruk in the course of the battle, and...
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civilization coalesced in the subsequent Uruk period (4000–3100 BC). Named after the Sumerian city of Uruk, this period saw the emergence of urban life in Mesopotamia...
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