Uruk

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• The early cylinder from Uruk (Fig. 6) was engraved with a bow drill, the same kind of mechanically operated tool used to bore the perforation for the suspension hole of the cylinder.

  Academic text (1993)

• So they go to Tortiwakan or they go to Uruk in the pre dynastic period.

• Welcome to our series on the Ancient Near East, beginning with the period from Uruk to Akkad.

• The importation of stones, probably from Iran, is a manifestation of the extensive commerce of Uruk with other regions that developed in the second half of the fourth millennium B.C.

  Academic text (1993)

• This type of monster had no direct successors after the Uruk period, whereas other monsters, like the lion-headed eagle, survived in artworks until the end of the Akkad period, about 2150 B.C.

  Academic text (1993)

• The earliest cylinder seal published from Uruk (Fig. 6) is very large and necessitated a bigger piece of stone than was needed for a stamp seal, which could have been fashioned from any pebble picked up from a river.

  Academic text (1993)

• The cylindrical shape appeared in about 3500 B.C. at the early urban site of Uruk (biblical Erech) in southern Mesopotamia and at the contemporary site of Susa in southwestern Iran.

  Academic text (1993)

• The archaeological findings in southern Mesopotamia date back to the Uruk period, highlighting early urbanization.

• Artifacts uncovered from the Uruk period provide insight into the development of ancient Sumerian culture.

• Many historians consider the Uruk period as a turning point in early state formation in Mesopotamia.

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