Samarra goods
The old Orient | |
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Timeline based on calibrated C 14 data | |
Epipalaeolithic | 12000-9500 BC Chr. |
Kebaria | |
Natufien | |
Khiamien | |
Pre-ceramic Neolithic | 9500-6400 BC Chr. |
PPNA | 9500-8800 BC Chr. |
PPNB | 8800-7000 BC Chr. |
PPNC | 7000-6400 BC Chr. |
Ceramic Neolithic | 6400-5800 BC Chr. |
Umm Dabaghiyah culture | 6000-5800 BC Chr. |
Hassuna culture | 5800-5260 BC Chr. |
Samarra culture | 5500-5000 BC Chr. |
Transition to the Chalcolithic | 5800-4500 BC Chr. |
Halaf culture | 5500-5000 BC Chr. |
Chalcolithic | 4500-3600 BC Chr. |
Obed time | 5000-4000 BC Chr. |
Uruk time | 4000-3100 / 3000 BC Chr. |
Early Bronze Age | 3000-2000 BC Chr. |
Jemdet Nasr time | 3000-2800 BC Chr. |
Early dynasty | 2900 / 2800-2340 BC Chr. |
Battery life | 2340-2200 BC Chr. |
New Sumerian / Ur-III period | 2340-2000 BC Chr. |
Middle Bronze Age | 2000-1550 BC Chr. |
Isin Larsa Period / Ancient Assyrian Period | 2000–1800 BC Chr. |
Old Babylonian time | 1800–1595 BC Chr. |
Late Bronze Age | 1550-1150 BC Chr. |
Checkout time | 1580-1200 BC Chr. |
Central Assyrian Period | 1400-1000 BC Chr. |
Iron age | 1150-600 BC Chr. |
Isin II time | 1160-1026 BC Chr. |
Neo-Assyrian time | 1000-600 BC Chr. |
Neo-Babylonian Period | 1025-627 BC Chr. |
Late Babylonian Period | 626-539 BC Chr. |
Achaemenid period | 539-330 BC Chr. |
Years according to the middle chronology (rounded) |
Samarra-Ware is the modern name of a particularly in the second half of the 6th millennium BC. Chr. In Mesopotamia produced ceramic goods. The production center of these goods is believed to be on the Tigris near Mosul . After her, a whole cultural horizon is called the Samarra culture. It is the oldest colored pottery in northern Mesopotamia.
The Samarra ware is painted and well fired. It shows sophisticated patterns, mostly in brown. There are geometrical, but also figurative representations. The pottery is handmade. They were first observed by Ernst Herzfeld and the German art historian Friedrich Sarre during the excavations of the Islamic city of Samarra and named after this location.
See also
literature
- Michael Roaf: Mesopotamia . Bechtermünz Verlag, Augsburg 1998, ISBN 3-86047-796-X , p. 48.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ in the Levant
- ↑ a b c d in southern Mesopotamia
- ↑ a b c in northern Mesopotamia
- ^ Stanley A. Freed: Research Pitfalls as a Result of the Restoration of Museum Specimens. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences , Volume 376, The Research Potential of Anthropological Museum Collections, pp. 229-245, December 1981.