Neo-Elamite vessels: Logistic Providers for Upper Persian Gulf Connectivity

Gorris, Elynn;et.al.
(2024) Nastaran Akhavan international conference on Iranian Studies (Melammu Symposia 17): Naval Connectivity around the Iranian World — Location: University of California, Irvine (19.June.2024)

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The paper shapes an image of logistic providers in the Upper Persian Gulf space during the early to mid-1st millennium BCE. The marshlands provided unique environmental conditions between Southern Mesopotamia and the Susiana coast of Elam, for which indigenous communities had designed a specific type of watercraft. In the Bel-iqbi and Eanna texts, this watercraft is hallimu. The characteristics hallimu boat described in the texts correspond with the flat-bottomed reed-bundled raft-canoe depicted on one of Neo-Assyrian palace reliefs in Nineveh. Remarkably, these raft-canoes resemble the traditional Iranian marsh boats recorded in 19th and early 20th century photographs and sketches.
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Gorris, E., & et al. (2024). Neo-Elamite vessels: Logistic Providers for Upper Persian Gulf Connectivity. Nastaran Akhavan international conference on Iranian Studies (Melammu Symposia 17): Naval Connectivity around the Iranian World, University of California, Irvine. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/269399