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A new Bactrian find from southeastern Arabia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

D. T. Potts
D. T. Potts*
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School of Archaeology, Classics & Ancient History, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
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Abstract

A new and handsome find, a decorated bone comb from Tell Abraq in the United Arab Emirates dated about 2100–2000 BC, provides another link between eastern Arabia and the distant Bactrian lands.

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Antiquity , Volume 67 , Issue 256 , September 1993, pp. 591 - 596
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1993

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