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CHAPTER THIRTY THE SUMERIANS AND THE GULF
 Robert Carter INTRODUCTION R elations between the peoples of Mesopotamia and the G ...

Age. It is usually stated that this trade began during the Jamdat Nasr period, on account of the presence of distinctive Jamdat ...

third millennium, but considers that the relationship with Mesopotamia began in the Jamdat Nasr period (D. Potts 1986 b: 132 ). ...

Robert Carter Figure 30.3 Map o f the G u lf showing sites o f the Uruk to E D II periods with Mesopotamian finds, and Late Neol ...

ar-Ramlah and a site known as ‘Police Pit’ (Preston 2011 : tabs 4 a– 4 c). Sum probabilities for these dates from the Gulf coast ...

phase of occupation are Jamdat Nasr to ED I (Cleuziou 1989 : 74 – 75 , pl. 22 ). Parallels have been observed between the plano- ...

The Sumerians and the Gulf HD-6 Period 1 Legend Figure 30.5 Site HD-6, Ras al-Hadd, Oman (courtesy of Valentina Azzara and the J ...

was potentially a Mesopotamian domesticate; although it is sometimes thought to have been domesticated in Arabia owing to early ...

Aside from the lexical lists, several badly preserved protoliterate economic texts (numbering 9 or 11 according to different aut ...

manufactured into the Ur III period in southeast Iran, around Tepe Yahya and Jiroft (Kohl 2001 : 201 ; Crawford and al-Sindi 199 ...

ORGANISATION AND LOGISTICS OF EARLY TRADING RELATIONS The presence of Dilmun tax-collectors from as early as the Late Uruk perio ...

trail from the mountains during the ED periods, was about 1300 km. This would have taken between twenty-two and fifty days only, ...

to 300 years. Any attempt to discern a narrative is therefore speculative, but the follow- ing pattern is broadly accepted: duri ...

from the mountains made its way northwards to Umm an-Nar island, along the oasis chain inland of the mountains (e.g. via Hili 8 ...

Around two centuries later, by the time of Ea-Nasir (Isin-Larsa period, reign of Rim Sin), the configuration of Mesopotamian rel ...

realm. Third, a text of Amar Sin Year 1 , 13 or 14 years later than Shulgi’s dispatch of troops, refers to a governor (ensi) of ...

During these developments, the agency and demographic input of the local Late Neolithic and early Hafit period populations must ...