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Stone fragment with cuneiform inscription, Bahrain National Museum, Manama, 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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Image Size: 4724x2874 / 1.3MB; www.manuelcohen.com; 1700 BC 1988 Akkadian ancient Arabian Gulf archaeological archaeology archeological archeology artefact artifact Bahrain Bahrain National Museum Bahraini Bahrein broken burial burial mound collection color image colour image cuneiform damaged Dilmun fragment Gulf Gulf State horizontal indoors inscription inside interior island Kingdom of Bahrain Krohn and Hartvig Rasmussen language Mamlakat al-Baḥrayn Manama Middle East Middle Eastern museum National Museum of Bahrain object offering Persian Gulf ritual Royal Burial Mounds of A'ali stone vessel
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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