The Indus Script: Texts, Concordance and Tables c4.s2.6

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Later, a few round Indus seals (a type rarely found in the Indus valley) were discovered along with a large number of local round stamp seals¹¹ on the islands of Failaka and Bahrain in the Gulf, where excavations since the 1950's have revealed a flourishing "Dilmun Civilization".¹² Furthermore when one purely "Dilmun-type" seal (L-123) was found at Lothal,¹³ much attention was paid to cuneiform sources dealing with the early maritime trade of Mesopotamia. Three foreign countries are referred to as participants of the sea trade: Dilmun (closest to Mesopotamia), Magan and (farthest away) Meluḫḫa. Magan is now widely identified with Oman and the opposite coast of Makran, and Meluḫḫa with the Harappan realm. Some tablets refer to a village of Meluḫḫans residing near Lagash for generations.¹⁴