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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 10084 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Vase [drawing: approx.] Type XXXIII |
| 10085 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Jug (Bottom all gone) [drawing] Type XXXI |
| 10086A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A] Copper Bucket Exactly like U10082 q.v. but larger= ht. c. 020 but the pot is too distorted for accurate measurement Inverted over its mouth is a [B] shallow plate diam 017 with rim 0025 high [drawing] something like this [drawing] Type XXXVII |
| 10087 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper Cauldron Much distorted and broken [drawing] Type II |
| 10110 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet Accounts. archaic. receipts of oil and honey? HC 51 |
| 10111 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet Accounts Archaic HC 52 |
| 10112 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tablet Accounts, archaic HC 53 |
| 10120 | (none) | 1930,1213.655 | (none) | Tablet Dusinan note: 2 (for?) ad-e or the major-domo HC 102 |
| 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? | |
| 10413 | (none) | (none) | B17340 | Copper Vessels a lamp, ordinary shell type fixed inside a shallow bowl with long handle (broken) & short splayed spout | |
| 10420A | (none) | 1928,1010.350 | (none) | Copper Saws two, Oxidised together & broken Type XI | |
| 10436A | (none) | (none) | B16744A | Box (?) Semi-circular The body of [B] silver, the lid of [A] shell and lapis inlay. The lid is of soild shell with inlaid diamond decoration found round the edge and engraved concentric lines on the top: inside this frame is a figure of a lion just after a spring silhouetted against lapis, the engraved lines filled in with red and black. Found on the SE side of the the box. | |
| 10451 | (none) | (none) | B17692 | Gold Lamp bowl with sloped straight sides rising from a ridge foot, with narrow carinated rim: from the rim projects a trough spout. (orig. circular, now bent) | |
| 10452 | (none) | 1928,1010.5 | (none) | Gold Goblet [drawing] |
| 10453 | (none) | (none) | B17691 | Gold Tumbler Straight-sided: the sides fluted: around top and bottom a herring-bone pattern and a double zigzag: on the base an eight-petalled rosette imposed on concentric cirlces: all designs done by chisel and hammer engraving; at one point on the rim a tiny ring-coil (horizontal) as if for suspension. (Dented in) | |
| 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__ |
| 10457A | (none) | (none) | B17297 | Silver Bowls 4 [A-D] Oxidised together 3 of oval type with little knob handles on the long sides, one hemispherical. Type __ Photo __ | |
| 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__ |
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