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Dilmun: Gateway to Immortality by C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
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IN 1861 Sir Henry Rawlinson first identified the island of Bahrain as the land of Dilmun mentioned in Sumerian and Babylonian texts. Since then, archaeological excavations have been undertaken on Bahrain by E. L. Dunnand (1880); T. Bent (1889); M. Jouannin (1903); Col. F. B. Prideaux (1906-8); E. MacKay (1924); P. B. Cornwall (1940-41); G. Bibby (1954-), and most recently by I. Moawiyah (1977-78).' The cuneiform references to Dilmun, recovered from Mesopotamia, fall into two distinct categories: (1) commercial, dedicatory, and astrological inscriptions, and (2) Sumerian literary compositions. From the inscriptions of the former there can be little doubt that Dilmun was a specific geographical locality involved in international trade.2 Dilmun's commercial enterprise has occupied the principal attention of scholars attempting to understand the economic relations that brought Dilmun, Mesopotamia, and the Indus Civilization into contact.3 There can be little doubt that Dilmun was of importance to Mesopotamian commerce or that ancient Dilmun is correctly identified as modern Bahrain. It is not my purpose here to rehash these already established facts. This paper concentrates on specific
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- Author
- C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press; The University of Chicago Press (ISSN 0022-2968)
- Published
- 1982
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)