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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Kish tablet (category Uruk period)
    Uruk period (c. 3500–3200 BC). Several thousand proto-cuneiform documents dating to Uruk IV and III periods (c. 3350–3000 BC) have been found in Uruk...
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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    Proto-cuneiform (category Uruk period)
    fragmentary slab at the Uruk site of Hacınebi Tepe has been proposed as a numerical tablet. The earliest tablets found, in the Uruk V period, are of a 'numerical'...
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  • Habuba Kabira (category Uruk period)
    part of the Uruk period in the later part of the 4th millennium BC. It was about 1300 kilometers from the southern Mesopotamia city of Uruk, five kilometers...
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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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    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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    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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    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. 2900–2350...
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    (~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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  • 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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    Shuruppak and Ebla only refers to Anu as the divine "king of Uruk." In later inscriptions from the period of the Old Babylonian Empire, Enlil could be mentioned...
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    Eridu (category Uruk period)
    were from the Ubaid period and Levels V to I were dated to the Uruk period. Significant habitation was found from the Uruk period with "non-secular" buildings...
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  • Jebel Aruda (category Uruk period)
    specifically in the Uruk V period. It is on the opposite side of the lake from the Halafian site of Shams ed-Din Tannira and is within sight of the Uruk V site Habuba...
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    Arslantepe (category Uruk period)
    building had wall decorations; its function is uncertain. By the late Uruk period development had grown to include a large temple/palace complex. Numerous...
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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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