CLAR 241:

The Archaeology of the Ancient Near East

© 2010 G. Kenneth Sams and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

Jemdet-Nasr Period (3100-2900): Images

Khafaje

Sequence of temples to the god Sin

*** Overall plan of Khafaje (Sin temple complex is at coordinates p-r/40-43)

*** Sin temple I, plan

Sin temple V

*** Plan

*** View (temple proper at far right)

*** Reconstruction

(For later phases of the temple, go to images for Early Dynastic)

 

Tell Asmar (Eshnunna)

*** First temple of Abu, plan

(For later phases of the temple, go to images for Early Dynastic)

 

Tell Brak (Habur region of northern Mesopotamia)

So-called "Eye Temple" of tripartite plan

*** Plan

*** Stone rosette insert for wall

*** Eye idol

*** Interior reconstruction

*** Stone head from beneath temple (17 cm. high)

 

Ur

*** Steatite bowl with bulls in relief (5 cm. high). Found in a house of much later (Persian) times; dated stylistically to the Jemdet-Nasr period.

 

Uruk (Warka)

"White Temple" to the sky god Anu

*** Simplified plan showing location

*** Temple and ziggurat, plan.

*** Distant view of ziggurat

*** View with stairs and temple

*** Interior view of temple

*** Reconstruction

*** Second reconstruction

 

Statuette of bearded male, stone (18 cm. high)

*** 3/4 color view

*** Front view

*** Back view

 

Marble head of woman (Inanna?) (20 cm. high)

*** 3/4 view

*** Front view

*** Reconstructed drawing

 

Cylindrical alabaster vessel with relief scenes of offerings to Inanna (1.05 m.)

*** View 1

*** View 2

*** View 3

*** Drawings

*** Detail of Inanna

*** Detail of ruler(?) and attendant

 

*** Gypsum trough (probably from Uruk) with relief of lambs emerging from hut (1.03 m. long)

 

*** Stele depicting man (twice) hunting lions (80 cm. high)

 

Sandstone pitcher with figures in relief (20 cm. high)

*** View 1

*** View 2

 

*** Spouted jug of gray stone with shell inlays (14 cm. high)

 

Unprovenanced, but dated stylistically to Jemdet-Nasr period

*** Lion-monster of crystalline limestone (9 cm. high)

 

 

 

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