| 释义 |
Ubaid Archæol.|ʊˈbaɪd|
[f. the name of the tell Al῾Ubaid near Ur in the Euphrates valley.]
Used attrib. of the culture thought to have flourished throughout Mesopotamia in the fifth millennium b.c., and of the artefacts associated with it.
[1927Hall & Wooley Ur Excavations I. viii. 165 Two types of kiln were employed by the al-῾Ubaid potter. Ibid. ix. 217 All of the al-῾Ubaid skulls have assumed..a reddish grey colour. 1936S. Lloyd Mesopotamia ii. 40 The familiar greenish-painted pottery..known as Al'Ubaid ware.] 1952V. G. Childe New Light on Most Anc. East i. 13 Still older and purely prehistoric are villages of the Ubaid culture. 1961G. Clark World Prehist. iv. 92 On the Ubaid foundation Sumerian civilization developed comparatively rapidly in the south. 1976Times 3 Sept. (Qatar Suppl.) p. iv/6 Recently Ubaid pottery has been found farther down the Gulf in Saudi Arabia. |