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Seafaring merchants of Ur?
Abstract
Less than ten years have passed since the first discovery in Saudi Arabia of prehistoric pottery superficially identical with that known from the earliest farming settlements in Sumer 6-700 km to the north. Some 40 sites have now been identified in the Eastern Province. More recently comparable pottery has been found at sites in nearby Qatar and Bahrain. These discoveries have provoked much speculation about the nature of the contact between Sumer and Arabia at this early period (on calibrated radiocarbon determinations by the late sixth millennium BC), and indeed on the origins of the people who created the important and distinctive prehistoric culture characterized by this pottery and known to archaeologists as ‘Ubaid.
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Texts from the Sargonic and Ur III periods mention commodities entering Mesopotamia from Dilmun, Magan, and Meluhha, including copper, tin, stone, semi-precious stones, as well as organic products.
“Texts from the Sargonic and Ur III periods (c. 2300–2000 BC) mention commodities entering Mesopotamia from toponyms referred to as ‘Dilmun’ (eastern Saudi Arabia/Bahrain), ‘Magan’ (southeastern Arabia and southeastern Iran), and ‘Meluhha’ (the Indus region), including copper, tin, stone, semi-precious stones, as well as organic products [67–69].”
From Identifying pastoral and plant products in local and imported pottery in Early Bronze Age southeastern Arabia (2025) · cites this paper as [67]
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- Authors
- Oates, J., Davidson, T. E., Kamilli, D., & McKerrell, H.
- Venue
- Antiquity
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 1977-11
- Volume
- 51
- Issue
- 203
- Pages
- 221-234
- ISSN
- 0003-598X
- 1745-1744
- Cited by
- 53
- References
- 0
- Language
- en
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