Early Dynastic / Sumerian
The period from circa 3000 BC-2350 BC in southern Mesopotamia is sub-divided into three main phases known as Early Dynastic I, II & III. Part of this region at this period corresponds to the ancient region of Sumer hence the assumption that all of the material culture is Sumerian.
Description:
The Sumerian Period is a grouping of the Early Dynastic Periods which were divided by the Oriental Institute's excavations in the Diyala. This term was used during Woolley's time to refer to this span of time. It was preceded by the Jemdat Nasr Period and followed by the Akkadian Period. During this period, Kingship alternated between a number of competing dynasties, traditionally including Kish, Uruk, and Ur.
Ultra Low Chronology:
Short/Low Chronology: 2800-2230 BCE
Middle Chronology: 2900-2340 BCE
Objects: Early Dynastic / Sumerian Export: JSON - XML - CSV
| Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 10121 | (none) | 1930,1213.658 | (none) | Tablet Small globular tablet: archaic "arad Lin-Ti(l)" |
| 10122 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet Small globular "tablet" archaic: "5 shekels weighed....... H.C. 57 |
| 10154 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Bowl Long handle with ring attached through a hole perforated in end. Part of rim missing. Type LXXX. |
| 10174 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Bowl Distorted Type III |
| 10175 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Lamp In imitation of a shell; with shallow trough spout Type __ |
| 10310 | (none) | 1928,1010.319 | (none) | Copper Dagger Long tang with 3 rivets Flat blade [drawing] [Type] 5? | |
| 10420A | (none) | 1928,1010.350 | (none) | Copper Saws two, Oxidised together & broken Type XI | |
| 10452 | (none) | 1928,1010.5 | (none) | Gold Goblet [drawing] |
| 10454 | (none) | 1928,1010.6 | (none) | Gold Spouted vessel. On a small solid base, oval, an oval bowl like a flattened half-egg: the sides fluted with herring-bone and double zigzag pattern engraved round rim and above base. From low on one side rises a tubular spout, curved and growing thinner to the tip. (Bent in). Found with gold and silver vessels at the far end of box [drawing] photo 1042 |
| 10455 | (none) | 1928,1010.135 | (none) | Silver Bucket (?) but with no handles [drawing] Type XXXII |
| 10456 | (none) | 1928,1010.134 | (none) | Silver Jug [drawing] XXX Type__ |
| 10458A | (none) | 1928,1010.146 | (none) | Silver Vessels [A-O] 15 goblets 42 (new) [P] 1 libation jug 83 (new) [Q] 1 flat tray 32 (new) Types__ Photo__ |
| 10460 | (none) | 1928,1010.133 | (none) | Silver Jug (?) Askos shape With 2 long lugs, pierced: through this runs a twisted silver wire of which the rest, attached to a spindle whorl-shaped object, perhaps the stopper, is inside the pot. Type 113? [drawing] |
| 10462 | (none) | 1928,1010.147 | (none) | Silver Pot [Type] XXXII [drawing] Inside it a silver bowl: and resting against the rim and projecting above it a silver drinking tube |
| 10463 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Lamp Usual shell type Type 115 (new) |
| 10464 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Bowl. Oval, with oval base. Type LXIII | |
| 10473 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Vessels A number, all corroded together, mostly tall tumblers, and with these a libation-jug and a pattern Types 43, 83, 32 (new) |
| 10474 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Vessels All corroded together |
| 10569 | (none) | 1928,1010.121 | (none) | Silver Pin With lapis ball head, the stem broken off Type V | |
| 10583 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Silver Goblet Plain Crushed flat [Type] [struck out: "LXII"] XLIX |
| 10602 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Clay Sealing. 2 fragments. Geometrical pattern. | |
| 10724 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Bowl. Oval shaped. Distorted. Type LXIII |
| 10785 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Group of copper vases Corroded together Including an oval bowl, and a hemispherical bowl Type LXIII |
| 10786 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Beaker. Bent and battered. Normal type. Type 49. |
| 10806B | (none) | 1928,1010.128 | (none) | Tomb Group. A. Beads. small lapis lentoids and some silver. B. Silver pin with lapis ball head Type V |
Related Terms
Ubaid - Uruk - Jemdat Nasr - Akkadian Dynasty - Guti/Post Akkadian - Ur III - Old Babylonian - Middle Assyrian - Kassite - Neo-Assyrian - Neo-Babylonian - Achaemenid Empire (Persian) - Seleucid - Parthian