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Meluhha
or Melukhkha is the Sumerian name of a prominent trading partner of Sumer during the Middle Bronze Age. Its identification remains an open question.
==Trade with Sumer==
Sumerian texts repeatedly refer to three important centers with which they traded: Magan, Dilmun, and Meluhha. ''Magan'' is usually identified with Egypt in later Assyrian texts; but the Sumerian localization of Magan was probably Oman. ''Dilmun'' was a Persian Gulf civilization which traded with Mesopotamian civilizations, the current scholarly consensus is that Dilmun encompassed Bahrain, Failaka Island and the adjacent coast of Eastern Arabia in the Persian Gulf.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sa'ad and Sae'ed Area in Failaka Island )〕
The location of Meluhha, however, is hotly debated. There are scholars today who confidently identify Meluhha with the Indus Valley Civilization (modern South Asia) on the basis of the extensive evidence of trading contacts between Sumer and this region. Sesame oil was probably imported from the Indus River region into Sumer: the Sumerian word for this oil is ''illu'' (Akkadian: ''ellu''). In Dravidian languages of South India, ''el'' or ''ellu'' stands for sesame.
There is extensive presence of Harappan seals and cubical weight measures in Mesopotamian urban sites. Specific items of high volume trade are timber and specialty wood such as ebony, for which large ships were used. Luxury items also appear, such as lapis lazuli mined at a Harappan colony at Shortugai (modern Badakhshan in northern Afghanistan), which was transported to Lothal, a port city in Gujarat in western India, and shipped from there to Oman, Bahrain and Sumer.
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