Stone fragment with cuneiform inscription, Bahrain

Fragment of a stone vessel with cuneiform inscription in the Akkadian language, steatite and chlorite, State of Dilmun, c. 1700 BC, part of a burial offering found in the Royal Burial Mounds of A'ali, in the Bahrain National Museum, designed by Krohn and Hartvig Rasmussen, inaugurated December 1988 by Amir Shaikh Isa Bin Salman Al-Khalifa, in Manama, Bahrain. The museum houses cultural and archaeological collections covering 6000 years of history, with rooms entitled Burial Mounds, Dilmun, Tylos and Islam, Customs and Traditions, Traditional Trades and Crafts, and Documents and Manuscripts. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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1700 Aali Akkadian Al-baa¸¥rayn Artefact Artifact Bahrain Bahraini Bahrein Cuneiform Dilmun Fragment Gulf Hartvig Krohn Language Mamlakat Manama Mound Mounds Rasmussen

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