Djemdet Nasr

32.718138 44.77935Coordinates: 32 ° 43 ′ 5.3 " N , 44 ° 46 ′ 45.7" O Dschemdet Nasr (also Ǧemdet Nasr , Djemdet Nasr , Arabic جمدة نصر, DMG Ǧamdat Naṣr ) is an archaeological site in Mesopotamia , 40 km northeast of Babylon and Kiš . The polychrome (colored) pottery characteristic of Jemdet Nasr , which dates from around 3100/3000 to around 2900/2800 BC. Dated to the Jemdet Nasr period , a development stage of the Mesopotamian culture, which follows the Uruk period and includes the find layers Uruk IV to III, the name.

This ceramic is characterized by sharp edges and well-drawn vessel edges. Their geometric painting is red, black and yellowish. The clay tablets found in Jemdet Nasr correspond to those found in Layer IIIb in Eanna , the cult center for Inanna in the Sumerian city of Uruk . They have the archaic written form. The god Enlil is mentioned for the first time on these tablets.

literature

Roger Matthews : Secrets of the dark mound. Jemdet Nasr 1926-1928 (= Iraq Archaeological Reports. Volume 6). British School of Archeology in Iraq, Warminster 2002, ISBN 978-0-85668-735-8 .

Remarks

↑ The middle chronology according to which Dschemet-Nasr period covers the period from 3200 to 2900 v. Cf. Klaas R. Veenhof : History of the Old Orient up to the time of Alexander the Great (= floor plans for the Old Testament. Volume 11). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, p. 307 ( online ).

[1] The middle chronology according to which Dschemet-Nasr period covers the period from 3200 to 2900 v. Cf. Klaas R. Veenhof : History of the Old Orient up to the time of Alexander the Great (= floor plans for the Old Testament. Volume 11). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, p. 307 ( online ).