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Evidence for Ancient Merels

1 pieces of evidence found.

Id DLP.Evidence.1302
Type Artifact
Location 38°53'13.21"N, 44°56'51.99"E
Date 0650-01-01BCE - 0585-12-31BCE
Rules Nine Men's Morris board.
Content Nine Men's Morris board carved into a pithos sherd. Found in the Uratian destruction layer of Room 3, Excavation unit 4 in the Upper city of Bastam. Kleiss 1979: 155, 170, Fig. 2.4.
Confidence 100
Social status Military
Spaces Military
Source Kleiss, W. 1979. Bastam I: Ausgrabungen in den urartäischen anlagen 1972-1975. Berlin: Bergn. Mann Verlag.

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