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  Arabian Archaeology and EpigraphyVolume 18 Issue 1, Pages 55 - 74 Published Online: 4 May 2007 © 2009 John Wiley & Sons A/S
Abstract | References | Full Text: HTML, PDF (Size: 1201K) | Related Articles | Citation Tracking  Revisiting the snake burials of the Late Dilmun building complex on Bahrain Copyright 2007 The Author Journal compilation 2007 Blackwell Publishing Ltd KEYWORDS Bahrain • Dilmun • Iron Age • snakes • ancient religion • Elam • Mesopotamia • Hinduism ABSTRACTThe well-known snake burials from the Late Dilmun building complex at Qalat al-Bahrain are discussed in the context of pre-Islamic Arabian, Mesopotamian, Elamite, Avestan, and Vedic Indian evidence. Ancient attitudes towards snakes are reviewed with the aim of confirming or eliminating one or more of these traditions as the likeliest cultural context for the snake sacrifices of Bahrain. | 
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