Dilmun
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Dilmun or Telmun is a land mentioned by Mesopotamian civilizations. It was a trade partner, a source of the metal copper, and an entrepôt of the Mesopotamia-to-Indus Valley Civilization trade route. Although the exact location of Dilmun is not known, it might be the islands of Bahrain, the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman and nearby Iranian coast in the Persian Gulf.[1] Gilgamesh had to pass through Mount Mashu to reach Dilmun in the Epic of Gilgamesh.[2]
Dilmun appears first in Sumerian cuneiform clay tablets from the end of fourth millennium BC.
References [change]
- ↑ Crawford, Harriet E. W. (1998). Dilmun and its Gulf neighbours. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 5. ISBN 0-521-58348-9.
- ↑ P. T. H. Unwin; Tim Unwin (18 June 1996). Wine and the Vine: An Historical Geography of Viticulture and the Wine Trade. Psychology Press. pp. 80–. ISBN 978-0-415-14416-2. http://books.google.com/books?id=U6XRp6gY8ucC&pg=PA80. Retrieved 31 May 2011.
