Jemdet Nasr

Ğemdet Nasr (also Jemdet Nasr, Nasr Djemdet ) is located an archaeological find place in Mesopotamia, 40 km northeast of Babylon and Kish. The characteristic Jemdet Nasr polychrome ( multicolored ) ceramics, which dates from around 3100/3000 to about 2900/2800 BC, was a stage of development of Mesopotamian culture, which follows the Uruk period, the name.

This ceramic is characterized by sharply angled edges and far drawn outward vessel edges. Their geometric painting is red, black and yellow. The clay tablets found in Jemdet Nasr correspond to those which have been found in Eanna, the cult center for Inanna in the Sumerian city of Uruk in layer IIIb. They have the archaic writing. The god Enlil is mentioned on these writing tablets for the first time.