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Umm an-Nar (Arabian culture or period)


Identification code: 300019806



Alternative term/s

  • Umm al-Nar
  • Umman-Nar

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Culture and styles of a bronze age people who existed from 2600-2000 BCE in what is now the United Arab Emirates and Northern Oman; named after the island of Umm an-Nar. The culature is known for collective, monumental, circular graves sometimes decorated with reliefs characterized by their simplicity, as well as for decorated soft stone vessels with parallels in Mesopotamia and Persia.

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