Hajji Muhammad

Japanese: ハッジ･ムハンマド（英語表記）Hajji Muhammad

A prehistoric site located in the riverbed of the Sebir River, a tributary of the Euphrates River, about 13 km southwest of Uruk in southern Iraq. The German Uruk-Warka Expedition conducted trial excavations in the winters of 1937-38 and 1938-39 and discovered a type of painted pottery that had not been known in southern Mesopotamia until then. The pottery has thick, wide geometric patterns painted in dark purple on a pale yellow clay body, and attention was drawn to its similarity to the painted pottery of Halaf and Arpatia, but it was the results of excavations at Eridu in 47-49 that established its chronological position in southern Mesopotamia.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

イラク南部，ウルクの南西約13kmのユーフラテス川支流セビル川の河床にある先史時代遺跡。ドイツのウルク･ワルカ調査隊が1937‐38,38‐39年の冬に試掘を行い，それまで南メソポタミアで知られていなかった型式の彩文土器を発見した。淡黄色の胎土に幾何学文を暗紫色の彩色で厚く広く施したもので，ハラフやアルパチヤの彩文土器との類似が注意されたが，メソポタミア南部における編年上の位置づけが確定したのは，47‐49年のエリドゥにおける発掘の結果である。

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