For discussion of Uruk material culture at Hacinebi, see Stein
1999, Pearce 1999, 2000; Pollock and Coursey 1996; and Pittman 1999
on the publications page of this website.
Uruk seal impressed artifacts are illustrated on a separate page of this website.
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Bevel rim bowls and conical cups with string-cut bases.
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Uruk low expanded band rim storage jar with nose lugs and cross-hatched incised decoration on shoulder. HN7834 (Pearce 2000:fig.17). |
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Cruciform-grooved stone weight (or possible macehead).
HN4667. (Stein 1999a:fig.7). This distinctively Uruk artifact has parallels
at Habuba Kabira and Tell Sheikh Hassan.
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In situ kitchen deposit of Uruk ceramics, tabular scraper, stone pestles and basalt grinding stone. Op. 14 locus 20 (Stein, Edens, et al.1996:fig.4) |
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Ceramic wall cones, some with bitumen-dipped heads (Stein
1999a:fig. 7). Wall cones are a common form of Uruk architectural decoration
throughout 4th millennium southern Mesopotamia and at Uruk colonies
such as Jebel Aruda and Hassek.
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Uruk cylinder-seal impressed administrative artifacts: hollow clay ball with tokens, tablet, jar stoppers and jar sealings. |
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| Ceramic sickle fragments. (L) HN4550. (R) HN5200 (Stein 1999a:fig.7). Baked clay sickles of this type are distinctive to southern Mesopotamia and were used in the Ubaid, Uruk, and Jemdet Nasr periods (5th-earliest 3rd millennium BC). | Conical headed copper pin- HN5594. This pin style has exact parallels at Uruk colonies such as Tell Sheikh Hassan and at contemporaneous southern sites such as Tello and Susa (Stein 1999a:18). |