Rafidain العربية

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Tell al-Ubaid

تل العبيد

SumerDhi Qar

A small mound near Ur that gave its name to the Ubaid period, the earliest phase of settlement in southern Mesopotamia, about 6500 to 3800 BC.

It also held a Sumerian temple of the goddess Ninhursag, which yielded a frieze of milking and dairy-making and a copper bull.

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