Intercultural Relations between South and Southwest Asia: Studies in commemoration of E.C.L. During Caspers (1934-1996)

About two seal‐impressed jars from Tell Abraq (Emirate of Umm al‐Quwain). New evidence for intercultural networks in the lower Arabian Gulf in the late 2nd – beginning of the 1st millennium BC

“…Nonetheless, following Olijdam (2008, p. 268) and according to Lambert (1979, p. 20), the latter should be rather dated to the turn of the 2nd/1st millennium BC. 8 Olijdam (2008) also drew attention to the vessel form, stylistic similarities and other formal features. Lombard (2020, pp.…”

“…One of the closest iconographic analogies is found in a seal impression on jar fragments discovered in the Temple Tower on Failaka island, discussed several times in the literature (Calvet, 1996;Lombard, 2020, pp. 613-615;Olijdam, 2008;Pic, 1990, pp. 138-139;Potts, 2010, p. 22).…”

“…Only four examples of seal impressions are reported from south-eastern Arabia. These include a secondmillennium sherd from Failaka (Olijdam, 2008) and a third-millennium one from the island of Umm an-Nar (Amiet, 1975), both classified as imports from central Asia and Syria, respectively. Two other impressions, made from the same Indus-style seal on two sherds possibly belonging to the same vessel were discovered at the third-millennium site of Salut-ST1 (Degli Esposti, 2016;Frenez et al, 2016, fig.…”