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Fig. 6. — The same type of vessel with identical form of hull, mast and 

 rigging, now in use in Burma. 



The recent researches in Elam^ have revealed the fact 

 that the painted pottery which was being made there before 

 2000 B.C. was copied in Turkestan and Baluchistan not very long 

 afterwards. This northerly and easterly spread of culture from 

 the region of the Persian Gulf does not directly concern us in 

 this discussion, in which I am not attempting to deal with the 

 contact of peoples by land. But the derivation of this art of 

 painted pottery in Elam is probably to be referred to Predynastic 

 Egypt ; and it may have been carried to the shores of the Persian 



' De Morgan, Mission scientifique en Perse. 



