A'ali Mound Cemetery
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Gabriel Mckee Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Gabriel Mckee Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Apr 11, 2023 11:32 AM
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History
A large complex of burial mounds located near the town of A'ali in central Bahrain. The burials date to the early Dilmun era, ca. 2050-1700 BCE.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/574183541
26.1498734441, 50.5184800692
- Associated Modern Locations:
- Less than certain: CIGS location of ‘Ālī (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of A'ali Burial Mounds (2500 BC - 1500 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- عالي (‘Ālī: Arabic, modern)
- Less than certain: A'ali Mound Cemetery part of (administrative) Dilmun (region) (2000 BC - 1500 BC)
- A'ali Mound Cemetery part of (analytical) Dilmun Burial Mounds (modern)
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catacomb, cemetery, necropolis, archaeological site, tumulus
Pleiades
Gabriel Mckee, Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson, Tom Elliott, and Rune Rattenborg, 'A'ali Mound Cemetery: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/574183541> [accessed: 24 April 2024]
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