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单词 uruk
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Urukn.

Brit. /ˈʊrʊk/, U.S. /ˈʊrʊk/
Etymology: < the Sumerian name of an ancient city in southern Iraq (modern Warka).
Used attributively in Uruk period to designate a phase in Sumerian-Akkadian culture.
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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [noun] > specific Chalcolithic or Early Bronze Age culture
Uruk period1932
1932 Antiquity 6 198 The Jemdet Nasr culture is preceded at Uruk (Warka)..by an older urban civilization in which writing was being developed, that is termed the URUK I culture.
1932 Antiquity 6 Index 522 Uruk culture.
1934 V. G. Childe New Light on Most Anc. East vi. 146 The next phase is..best known as a result of the excavations so meticulously conducted and so promptly published by the Germans at Erech. It is accordingly designated the Uruk period (Uruk is just the Babylonian form of the Hebrew Erech).
1947 D. Diringer Alphabet i. 41 The earliest extant written cuneiform documents, consisting of over one thousand tablets and fragments, discovered mainly at Uruk or Warka, the Biblical Erech, and belonging to the ‘Uruk Period’ of the Mesopotamian pre-dynastic period, are couched in a crude pictographic script and probably Sumerian language.
1958 L. Cottrell Anvil of Civilisation vii. 94 Phase Two, the so-called ‘Uruk’ period, [was discovered] by the Germans at Warka.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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