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Mesopotamia’s invisible exports in the third millennium B.C
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This article tries to clarify the problem of Mesopotamia's exports, which by an historically unfortunate accident seem to have been of a perishable nature. In addition to the better known exports of grain and cloth it is suggested that leather, fish, perfumed fats and oils, and possibly slaves, all played a part. It is also pointed out that there was a considerable inter‐city trade within Mesopotamia. An attempt is made to find archaeological traces of the processing of trade goods in Mesopotamia prior to export.
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“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].”
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- Crawford, H. E. W.
- Venue
- World Archaeology
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- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 1973-10
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 2
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- 232-241
- ISSN
- 0043-8243
- 1470-1375
- Cited by
- 39
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- 0
- Language
- en
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