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The site of Saar: Dilmun reconsidered

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Harriet Crawford
Harriet Crawford*
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Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 31–34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY, England
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Recent excavations at the site of Saar, Bahrain, further advance our knowledge of Dilmun, that magical place on the Gulf which was a cross-roads of southwest Asian land and northwest Indian Ocean. Saar is a proto-urban agglomeration with the characteristics of a planned settlement — planned it appears from some other and controlling place.

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Antiquity , Volume 71 , Issue 273 , September 1997, pp. 701 - 708
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1997 

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