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SITE ID - NAME :	S1	Samarra
ANCIENT NAME :	-
OTHER NAME :	-
LOCATION :	Central Iraq, Baghdad
CHRONOLOGY :	Neolithic; Chalcolithic; Protoliterate; Early Historic; Late Historic
PERIOD CODE :	3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
DESCRIPTION :	An Early Islamic city of the Abbasid Dynasty (mid 8th-mid 10th century AD: a 'golden age' of Islamic civilization), founded as the new capital in AD 836 near the Tigris north of Baghdad. Most famous among its many monuments is the wonderful spiral minaret of Mutawakkil's great Congregational Mosque. Apart from its importance for the Islamic period, the site was marked by fine painted Neolithic pottery found in a cemetery with human inhumations. These ceramics gave their name to the Samarra culture complex.
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