Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Styles and Periods Facet
3. Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)
4. [styles, periods, and cultures by region]
5. Early Western World
6. Near Eastern (Early Western World)

Narrower term/s

• Akkadian (culture or style)
• Assyrian[+]
  • Old Assyrian
  • Middle Assyrian
  • Late Assyrian [+]
    • Sargonid (Late Assyrian)
• Isin-Larsa
• Sumerian (culture or style)
• Sumero-Akkadian
• Early Dynastic (Mesopotamian)[+]
  • Protoimperial
  • Early Dynastic I
  • Early Dynastic II
  • Early Dynastic III
• Neo-Sumerian[+]
  • Third Dynasty of Ur
• Old Babylonian[+]
  • First Dynasty of Babylon
• Neo-Babylonian
• Kassite
• Mitannian (culture or style)
• Assyro-Babylonian
• Mesopotamian glyptic styles[+]
  • Brocade Style
• prehistoric Mesopotamian periods[+]
  • prehistoric Northern Mesopotamian periods [+]
    • Hassuna
    • Samarra (culture or period)
    • Halaf
    • Jarmo
    • Gawra period (Migration culture or period)
  • prehistoric Southern Mesopotamian periods [+]
    • Ubaid [+]
      • Eridu
      • Hajji Muhammed
      • Ubaid 3
      • Ubaid 4
    • Protoliterate [+]
      • Uruk
      • Jamdat Nasr
• Post-Akkadian
• Mari Age
• Babylonian
• Mesopotamian pottery styles[+]
  • Ninevite 5
  • Nuzi
  • Khabur
  • Metallic (Mesopotamian pottery style)
  • black burnished (Mesopotamian pottery style)
  • Black-on-Buff
  • gray burnished (Mesopotamian pottery style)
  • Hassuna archaic
  • Scarlet (pottery style)
  • Hassuna standard
• Amorite (culture or style)

Anotations

Scope note:

Refers to the culture that developed in the geographic area of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, from the mountains of Asia Minor to the Persian Gulf, includes part of modern Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey.