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
Picture No
13442007
Media ID
45127996
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4724px x 2874px
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Credit
Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by Manuel Cohen
