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Long-distance trade and cross-cultural interaction played a significant role in shaping the socio-economic and cultural developments in prehistoric South-eastern Arabia (Frenez 2019)
We present and discuss these artefacts in light of their significance for understanding of the long-distance cross-cultural exchange networks that connected South-eastern Arabia to the wider region during this period
As there is no direct information concerning the socio-economic and political organisation of the Oman Peninsula in any known textual source after the Ur III period to the very end of the time span covered by LCG-1 (Yule 2014: 17–18), a detailed study of material culture from the tomb is essential for reconstructing the extensive network of Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age cross-cultural interactions involving South-eastern Arabia
Summary
Long-distance trade and cross-cultural interaction played a significant role in shaping the socio-economic and cultural developments in prehistoric South-eastern Arabia (Frenez 2019). Comm.), the anthropomorphic figure on DA29479/2 represents a master of animals (Anzû or Ukaduhhû) protecting the bearer of the seal against demonic forces, represented by the horned goats; the master of animals is a servant spirit of the great gods Ninurta and his wife Gula and, together, the three protect the bearer of the seal against evil in general and diseases in particular This subject is paralleled in a Late Middle Elamite cylinder seal from Chogha Zanbil, which exhibits a winged creature with an eagle’s head and talons standing on two small, horned goats in front of a blooming palm tree, while holding two larger goats by their hind legs Gula is mentioned on an eye-stone that features a three-line votive inscription from the king of Babylon Šagarakti-Šuriaš (1245–1233 BC) (Clayden 2009: 48 & tab. 3/34)
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