Samarra goods

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A reconstructed bowl from Samara with a swastika in the center. Pergamon Museum , Berlin.

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.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ in the Levant
  2. ↑ a b c d in southern Mesopotamia
  3. ↑ a b c in northern Mesopotamia
  4. ^ 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.