Samarra#Ancient Samarra

Samarra Ware is the modern name of a produced mainly in the second half of the sixth millennium BC in Mesopotamia ceramic ware. The production facility of its goods are suspected on the Tigris near Mosul. In honor of an entire culture horizon is called the Samarra culture. It is the oldest painted pottery in Northern Mesopotamia.

The Samarra lot painted and well fired. It shows refined shapes, usually in brown. There you will find geometric, but also figurative representations. The pottery is handmade. It was first observed by Ernst Herzfeld in the excavations of the Islamic city of Samarra and was named after this locality.