Jemdet Nasr (English spelling)

Japanese: Jemdet Nasr(英語表記)JemdetNasr
Jemdet Nasr (English spelling)

...A culture dating from around 3200 to 3100 BCE, characterized by the ruins of Jamdat Nasr in southern Mesopotamia, namely Babylonia. It was once written as Jemdet Nasr. Jamdat Nasr is 40 km northeast of Babylon, and in 1925-26 and 1928, S. Langdon of Oxford University excavated a large sun-dried brick building that appeared to be a palace, measuring more than 92m x 48m, as well as painted pottery with red and black geometric patterns and tablets with somewhat developed hieroglyphics.

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Japanese:

…メソポタミア南部,すなわちバビロニアのジャムダット・ナスルJamdat Nasr遺跡を標式とする,前3200~前3100年ころの文化。かつてジェムデット・ナスルJemdet Nasrとも記された。ジャムダット・ナスルはバビロンの北東40kmにあり,1925‐26,28年にオックスフォード大学のS.ラングドンが,92m×48m以上の宮殿らしい日乾煉瓦の大きな建物と,赤と黒による幾何学文からなる彩文土器,やや発達した象形文字をもつタブレットなどを発掘した。…

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