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Mesopotamian civilizations
Societies, cities and religious traditions in Mesopotamia.
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Ubaid culture
An archaeological designation for material traditions originating in southern Mesopotamia with regional diffusion. Broad southern frame c. 6500–3800 BCE; not a known linguistic people, with limits varying by region and phase.
Ubaid bowl from Eridu cemetery, grave 136; mid-sixth–fifth millennium BCE. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 49.133.2. A specific archaeological object, not a representation of all Ubaid pottery
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Late Bronze Age
An archaeological period conventionally around 1600–1200 BCE in much of the Near East, with regional variation.
An object from the Late Bronze Age: fragment of a Ugaritic alphabet tablet, c. 1400–1200 BCE; Louvre, AO 19992 / RS 10.087. This image illustrates one object, not every society of the period
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