Legacy of Dilmun: The Roots of Ancient Maritime Trade in Eastern Coastal Arabia in the 4th/3rd Millennium B.C. |
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3rd millennium B.C. Adams Akkadian al-Hasa alluvium ancient Arabs archaeological evidence Assyrian Babylon Babylonian Bahrain Bibby carnelian century A.D. ceramic Chaldaean Chapter Characene Charax cinnamon coast commercial copper Cornwall cultural cuneiform Dilmun Dilmunites During-Caspers dynasty Early Dynastic East eastern Arabia Eastern Province eastern Saudi Arabia economic Eridu ethnic Euphrates exchange Failaka fishing Gadd Gerrha groups Gulf region Hellenistic historical Hormuz Hourani ibid important India Indus Valley inhabitants inscriptions Iran Isin-Larsa Islamic island Jabrin Kassite King Lagash land lapis Larsa Leemans located Magan maritime trade Masry Meluḥḥa merchants Mesopotamia Mesopotamian alluvium millennia Nearchus nomadic oasis op.cit Oppenheim 1954 overland Persian Gulf port pottery probably Qala'at Qatif records reign role route Sabaeans Saudi Arabia Scylax seafaring Sealand seals sedentary Seleucid settlement Siraf sources South Arabia Southern Mesopotamia subsistence suggested Sumer Sumerian temple texts textual tion tribal tribe tumuli Ubaid period Ur III Uruk Uruk period