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Eridu Phase (Tell Abu Shahrain)

[2]The Oriental Institute of Chicago 

The most southerly and possibly also the earliest city-state of
[3]Sumer in southern [4]Mesopotamia. A sounding excavated underneath a
ziggurat of the late 3rd millennium BC revealed a sequence of 18
religious buildings. The earliest building was a simple mud-brick
shrine resting on virgin sand. By the time of its tenth rebuilding it
had acquired the standard form of the Sumerian temple with tripartite
plan consisting of a long central room flanked by symmetrically
grouped side chambers and was built on a substantial platform. The
earliest phase of occupation - named the Eridu Phase - is dated to
circa 5000 BC; this is followed by the [5]Hajji Muhammed Phase: both
of these precede the fully developed [6]Ubaid Cultural Period. They
are often regarded as early or proto-Ubaid.

The settlement at Eridu can also be regarded as proto-urban from the
beginning; it grew into a substantial city by the Early Dynastic
Period; and two royal palaces of this period have been excavated.
Outside the temple precinct a large cemetery of the late Ubaid Period
was found; this contained perhaps 1000 graves of which circa 200 were
excavated. Grave goods include painted pottery vessels, terracotta
figurines and baked clay tools such as sickles and shaft-hole axes
..... (AHSFC)

[7]Images From History (University of Alabama at Birmingham) 
Handmade painted pottery from tombs at Eridu.
Dark geometric designs on light ground typifies
the Ubaid Period. (Iraq Museum in Baghdad)
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References

1. http://ancientneareast.tripod.com/index.html
2. http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/IS/SANDERS/PHOTOS/MESO/ERIDU/eridu1_1.html
3. http://ancientneareast.tripod.com/Sumer.html
4. http://ancientneareast.tripod.com/Mesopotamia.html
5. http://ancientneareast.tripod.com/Hajji_Muhammed_Period.html
6. http://ancientneareast.tripod.com/Ubaid_Culture.html
7. http://www.hp.uab.edu/image_archive/ue/uea.html
8. http://emuseum.mnsu.edu/archaeology/sites/middle_east/eridu.html
9. http://www.angelfire.com/tx/gatestobabylon/eridugen.html
10. http://www.angelfire.com/tx/gatestobabylon/enkieridu.html
11. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/thehistorofth-20
12. http://ancientneareast.tripod.com/index.html