Before Baghdad:

Cities of Ancient
Mesopotamia
MW 10-11am, Peabody Museum 59D

7. Uruk, the “World’s First City”

Ubaid:
ca. 5200-4400 BC
Ubaid
Pottery
Ubaid period temples at Eridu,
E-abzu
 Temple of
Eridu VII
(late Ubaid)
Ubaid Tripartite House at Tell Madhhur
Tripartite house at Tell el-Oueili, Southern Iraq
Ubaid Tripartite House at Kheit Qasim
Tell Madhur Kheit Qasim Eridu
Uruk: ca. 4000-3000 BC

What is “Uruk”?

• The Site (Warka)

• The Chronological
Period (ca. 4000-3000)
• The Cultural Complex
uruk: urbanization as regional process.
The City of
Uruk (Warka)
Excavations at Warka (ancient Uruk)
Architectural Preservation in Eanna (Uruk)
Distribution of
Uruk Ceramics
Anu Ziggurat and White Temple, Uruk
 The White
Temple at Uruk
White Temple and Terrace at Uruk
Uruk, Eanna Complex: monumentalization of the cult center
Cone mosaic, 3300–3100 B.C.; Late Uruk period
Excavated at the “Pillared Hall," Uruk, Mesopotamia
Clay, mud plaster. Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin (L.1995.48.2)