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- ⊕ Africa
- ⊕ Asia
- ⊕ Europe
- ⊖Middle East
- ⊕ North America
- ⊕ Oceania
- ⊕ South America
- ⊕ Steppe
- ⊞ Upper Palaeolithic Near East
- ⊟Neolithic Near-East
- ⊞ Ancient Asia-Minor and Levant
- ⊞ Ancient Mesopotamia
- ⊞ Ancient Persia
- ⊞ Mediaeval Middle East
- ⊞ Modern Middle East
- ⊕ Africa
- ⊕ Asia
- ⊕ Europe
- ⊖Middle East
- ⊕ North America
- ⊕ Oceania
- ⊕ South America
- ⊕ Steppe
- ⊞ Upper Palaeolithic Near East
- ⊟Neolithic Near-East
- ⊞ Ancient Asia-Minor and Levant
- ⊞ Ancient Mesopotamia
- ⊞ Ancient Persia
- ⊞ Mediaeval Middle East
- ⊞ Modern Middle East
Natufian culture
Start: 13000 BC
End: 7500 BC
Type: Culture
Capital: Shuqba cave
Language: possibly proto-Afro-Asiatic
Agriculture: Sedentary hunter-gatherer, cereal milling
Industry: Microlithic industry
Notes: Early pre-agricultural sedentary culture. The earliest known archaeological evidence of dog domestication. Lived in a proto-Jericho site. The worlds oldest brewery.
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Pottery jar
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Note
Year
Category: Pottery
Location:
Tell al-Ubaid
Material:
Collection:
The Louvre
Author:
By ALFGRN - https://www.flickr.com/photos/156915032@N07/33767005
Reference:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=78172134
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Pottery jar
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Note
Year
Category: Pottery
Location:
Tell al-Ubaid
Material:
Clay
Collection:
The Louvre
Author:
By ALFGRN - https://www.flickr.com/photos/156915032@N07/33767005
Reference:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=78172134
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Pottery jar
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Note
Year
Category: Pottery
Location:
Tell al-Ubaid
Material:
Collection:
The Louvre
Author:
By ALFGRN - https://www.flickr.com/photos/156915032@N07/46728788
Reference:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=78172135
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Seated female figure
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NoteClay Mother Goddess / Venus figurine.
Year
Category: Sculpture
Location:
Halaf
Material:
Collection:
Author:
Reference:
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Female figure
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Notepainted terracotta Mother Goddess Figure / venus figurine.
Year
Category: Sculpture
Location:
Halaf
Material:
Terracotta
Collection:
The Louvre
Author:
Reference:
AO 21095, AO
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Female figure
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NoteMother Goddess Figure / venus figurine, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
Year
Category: Sculpture
Location:
Halaf
Material:
Clay
Collection:
The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
Author:
Reference:
48.2741
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Carved Jar
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NoteEgg shaped stone jar with flat base; carved with two lions attacking bulls, with a scale pattern in 3 rows indicating the ground below; the neck is lost; two holes drilled opposite one another in the shoulder suggest that the jar may have been suspended.Rim and neck broken off.(BM)Late Uruk
Year
Category: Sculpture
Material:
Granite
Collection:
The British Museum
Author:
Reference:
128886
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Globular Clay Accountancy Envelope
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NoteGlobular Accountancy clay envelope found with a cluster of accounting tokens. Example of Symbolic Technology.
From the Tell of the Acropolis in Susa.
Atlas 17360
Year
Category: Tool
Location:
Susa
Material:
Clay
Collection:
The Louvre
Author:
Reference:
Public Domain
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The mask of Warka
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NoteThe mask of Warka, from Warka (ancient Uruk), Iraq. Jemdet Nasr period The Iraq Museum, Baghdad.
Image Cropped.
Year3000 BC
Category: Sculpture
Location:
Uruk
Material:
Collection:
Author:
Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg)
Reference:
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
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Cylinder seal
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NoteThe king-priest and his acolyte feeding the sacred herd(wiki)
Year
Category: Sculpture
Material:
Limestone
Collection:
The Louvre
Author:
Reference:
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Proto Cuneiform Tablet
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NoteProto Cuneiform Tablet from Uruk III.
Department of Oriental antiquities, Richelieu.
Image cropped.
Year
Category: Writing
Material:
Clay
Collection:
Author:
Reference:
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.
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Limestone statuette of bearded man
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NoteLimestone statuette of bearded man (possibly priest-king),
Ancient Near East Gallery, Louvre.
Year3300 BC
Category: Sculpture
Material:
Collection:
The Louvre
Author:
Reference:
Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication
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Hassuna Ibex Decorated Bowl
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NoteDecorated redware bowl with Ibexes.
By United States Agency for International Development - United States Department of Defense, Public Domain.
Year
Category: Pottery
Location:
Hassuna
Material:
Collection:
Author:
By United States Agency for International Development
Reference:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=45057599
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Female figurine
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NoteFound in the Tell es Sawwan (middle Tigris, near Samarra), level 1, ca. 6000 BC.
Year
Category: Sculpture
Location:
Samarra
Material:
Alabaster
Collection:
Author:
By Unknown - Female_figurine_Tell_es_Sawwan_DAO33.jpg, Public Do
Reference:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15417770
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Human figure
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Year
Category: Sculpture
Location:
Ain Ghazal
Material:
Plaster
Collection:
The Louvre
Author:
Reference:
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Half human figure
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NoteThis example, known to the BM as Micah, is one of many from the Ain Ghazal cache. The eyes are painted with bitumen and there is a green mineral pigment residue, dioptase.
Year
Category: Sculpture
Location:
Ain Ghazal
Material:
Lime plaster, reed armature
Collection:
The British Museum
Author:
Reference:
Micah
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Human figure
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NoteThis example, known to the BM as Noah, is one of many from the Ain Ghazal cache. The eyes are painted with bitumen and there is a green mineral pigment residue, dioptase
Year
Category: Sculpture
Location:
Ain Ghazal
Material:
Lime plaster, reed armature
Collection:
The British Museum
Author:
Reference:
Noah
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Human figure
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NoteThis example, known to the BM as Heifa, is one of many from the Ain Ghazal cache. The eyes are painted with bitumen and there is a green mineral pigment residue, dioptase.
Year
Category: Sculpture
Location:
Ain Ghazal
Material:
Lime plaster, reed armature
Collection:
The British Museum
Author:
Reference:
Heifa
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Seated Mother Goddess of Çatalhöyük
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NoteSeated Mother Goddess / Venus from Catalhoyuk (Turkey), Neolithic age (about 6000-5500 BCE), today in Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara. (wiki).
Head is modern reconstruction.
Year
Category: Sculpture
Location:
Çatalhöyük
Material:
Collection:
Author:
By Nevit Dilmen (talk) - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0
Reference:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=14783156
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Wild bull horns
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NoteWild bull horns on pillars in Building 77 at Çatalhöyük site.
Year
Category: Sculpture
Location:
Çatalhöyük
Material:
Collection:
Author:
Jason Quinlan
Reference:
http://www.catalhoyuk.com
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Small female figurine
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NoteSmall Mother Goddess / Venus figurine found at Çatalhöyük in 2008
Year
Category: Sculpture
Location:
Çatalhöyük
Material:
Collection:
Author:
Jason Quinlan
Reference:
www.catalhoy
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Statuette of a seated female nude
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NoteStatuette of a seated nude from Çatalhöyük, one of the earliest examples representing the Mother Goddess.
Year
Category: Sculpture
Location:
Çatalhöyük
Material:
Collection:
Author:
Reference:
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Horned figure
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NoteThis solid-cast sculpture is one of a pair of nearly identical images of a hero or a demon wearing the upturned boots associated with highland regions, his power enhanced by the mighty horns of the ibex on his head(NYM).
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Year
Category: Sculpture
Material:
Bronze
Collection:
New York Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author:
Reference:
2007.280
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Sialk ziggurat
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NoteCAD rendering of Sialk ziggurat based on archeological evidence(wikipedia)
Year3000 BC
Category: Architecture
Location:
Tepe Sialk
Material:
Collection:
Author:
Reference:
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Kneeling bull figurine
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Notemore
Year
Category: Sculpture
Location:
Susa
Material:
Silver
Collection:
New York Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author:
Reference:
66.173
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Anthropomorphic vessel
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NoteNorthwestern Iran .Smithsonian museums, Washington DC, USA.
Year
Category: Sculpture
Material:
Collection:
Smithsonian Museums, Washington DC, USA
Author:
Reference:
S1986.501
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Statuette of a Monkey
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Note
Year
Category: Sculpture
Material:
Collection:
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge MA
Author:
Reference:
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The Ain Sakhri Lovers
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NoteThe Ain Sakhri lovers, from Ain Sakhri, Judea.
(British Museum: 1958,1007.1 )
Year9000 BC
Category: Sculpture
Material:
Carved stone (calcite cobble)
Collection:
The British Museum
Author:
Reference:
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Pre pottery B Female figurine
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NoteFemale and male figurines; 9000-7000 BC; gypsum with bitumen and stone inlays; from Tell Fekheriye (Al-Hasakah Governorate of Syria); University of Chicago Oriental Institute (USA)
Year
Category: Sculpture
Location:
Tell Fekheriye (Sikkan)
Material:
Collection:
University of Chicago Oriental Institute, USA
Author:
By Sailko - Own work, CC BY 3.0
Reference:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=65577180
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Pre pottery B Male figurine
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NoteFemale and male figurines; 9000-7000 BC; from Tell Fekheriye (Al-Hasakah Governorate of Syria); University of Chicago Oriental Institute (USA)
Year
Category: Sculpture
Location:
Tell Fekheriye (Sikkan)
Material:
Gypsum with bitumen and stone in
Collection:
University of Chicago Oriental Institute, USA
Author:
By Sailko - Own work, CC BY 3.0
Reference:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=65577180
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Venus figurine
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NoteClay female human figurine (Fertility goddess) Tappeh Sarab, Kermanshah ca. 7000-6100 BC, Neolithic period, National Museum of Iran
Year7000 BC
Category: Sculpture
Location:
Tappeh Sarab
Material:
Collection:
Author:
By Nationalmuseumofiran - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0
Reference:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=63082270
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Terracotta Female Head
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NoteCYPRUS 7thC BC. Head of terracotta female figure. Image cropped
Year
Category: Sculpture
Location:
Rhodes
Material:
Terracotta
Collection:
The British Museum
Author:
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Reference:
BM 1864,1007.1270
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