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Dilmun: International Burial Ground

Dilmun: International Burial Ground DILMUN: INTERNATIONAL BURIAL GROUND BY ELISABETH C. L. DURING CASPERS (Leiden) It has been recently suggestedl) that the enormous number of burial mounds present on the island of Bahrain and in the coastal areas of northeastern Arabia near Dhahran and Abqaiq and which belong incontestably to the Sumerian land of Dilmun represent an elaborate funerary cult reflected in Sumerian literature referring to Dilmun. The association of these tumuli with the significance of Dilmun as referred to in Sumerian literature has not been pointed out by archaeologists or philologists"2). The readiness of identification of Bahrain with the adjacent coastal Arabian regions as a burial ground of singular pertinence is self-explanatory. It needs no further em- phasis, considering the almost inestimable number of interments in both places of prehistoric and late 1 st millennium B.C. date. Thousands of similar tumuli in the Yabrin Oasis and around Dhahran in northeastern Saudi Arabia should be added to Larsen's most recent estimation of the total number of 172,093 tumuli on the island of Bahrain which is based on a study of aerial photographs. It is self-evident solely numerically, and leaving aside the fact that we should allow for a re-use of a percentage http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient Brill

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Brill
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© 1984 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0022-4995
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1568-5209
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10.1163/156852084X00010
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DILMUN: INTERNATIONAL BURIAL GROUND BY ELISABETH C. L. DURING CASPERS (Leiden) It has been recently suggestedl) that the enormous number of burial mounds present on the island of Bahrain and in the coastal areas of northeastern Arabia near Dhahran and Abqaiq and which belong incontestably to the Sumerian land of Dilmun represent an elaborate funerary cult reflected in Sumerian literature referring to Dilmun. The association of these tumuli with the significance of Dilmun as referred to in Sumerian literature has not been pointed out by archaeologists or philologists"2). The readiness of identification of Bahrain with the adjacent coastal Arabian regions as a burial ground of singular pertinence is self-explanatory. It needs no further em- phasis, considering the almost inestimable number of interments in both places of prehistoric and late 1 st millennium B.C. date. Thousands of similar tumuli in the Yabrin Oasis and around Dhahran in northeastern Saudi Arabia should be added to Larsen's most recent estimation of the total number of 172,093 tumuli on the island of Bahrain which is based on a study of aerial photographs. It is self-evident solely numerically, and leaving aside the fact that we should allow for a re-use of a percentage

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Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1984

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