“Y ATRAVESÓ EL MAR INFERIOR”: LA DINASTÍA ACADIA Y SU MIRADA A LAS COSTAS DEL GOLFO PÉRSICO

Abstract

The first mention which we have on the region of Magan in the Mesopotamian texts appears in the Akkadian Age, always connected to the regions of Dilmum and Meluhha. While regions such as Dilmun, recorded in the Uruk texts or even as an expression like `Lower Sea´ already appear at the end of the Early Dynastic, the region of Magan, what will be called in the texts `Black Mountains´, are not recorded until the Akkadian times, concretely since Manistusu´s reign. In this article, we are going to take an historical tour on the Mesopotamian texts which tell us about Magan in the Akkadian Age. We are building this on both the materials coming from those mountains (current mountains of al Hayyar) and the archaeological remains of the Umm an Nar Culture, contemporary of the Akkadian World in Oman Peninsula. Between them, Akkad and Magan, the region of Dilmun, intermediary by excellence, will also have a place in our investigation, as it is a compulsory place of transfer of the materials, objects and the ideas which circulated all over the Persian Gulf in the Second half of the III Millennium BC.