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Location

  • Iraq, ‘Abd al Ḩasan Wāwī
  • geo:32.717216,44.778915
  • Location: correct and verified

Period or year

  • -5000~ / -2350~

Classification

  • city
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Jemdet Nasr

data access 21097

Jemdet Nasr in modern-day Babil Governorate in Iraq is the eponymous type site for the Jemdet Nasr period (3100–2900 BC). Tell tell contains two mounds adjacent to each other. The site was occupied at least in the Ubaid period and occupied in Uruk and Early Dynastic I periods.

See:

  1. R. J. Matthews. (1989). E in xcavations at Jemdet Nasr, 1988. Iraq, 51, 225-248. doi:10.2307/4200306
  2. Stephen Herbert Langdon, The Herbert Weld Collection in the Ashmolean Museum: Pictographic Inscriptions from Jemdet Nasr Excavated by the Oxford and Field Museum Expedition, Oxford Editions of Cuneiform Inscriptions, 7, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1928

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Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2015-07-06) , with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/21097
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Suggested citation: , E. , Jemdet Nasr. https://vici.org/vici/21097, accessed 2026-09-29.