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Another connection between Sippar and Syria?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2014

Diederik Meijer
Diederik Meijer*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, POB 9515, 2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands [email protected]
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Abstract

On the basis of cylinder seal impressions from the Middle Bronze Age strata of Tell Hammam al-Turkman (Syria) a case is made for cultural and possibly commercial connections between that site and the region of Old Babylonian Sippar in Iraq.

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Research Article
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IRAQ , Volume 72 , 2010 , pp. 201 - 204
Copyright
Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 2010

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