The Early Dynastic sources make it clear that there existed a distinct Dilmun boat connected to foreign sea trade. The Babylonian Moon god (Nanna/Suen/Sîn) was symbolically associated with both a bowl and a boat that sailed across the night sky during stages in the monthly cycle before Nanna ultimately would “rise” from the bowl and boat at full moon. Sources from the Early Dynastic IIIa period mention actual votive bowls that are related to the “bowl” stage in the lunar cycle. Votive bowls shaped as boats are also mentioned in documentary sources associated with different deities. The boat shaped bowls for Nanna probably existed as a convergence of the cyclical concepts of the “Bowl” and the “Boat”. Importantly, from an Arabian Gulf perspective, these boat-shaped bowls are occasionally explicitly stated to have been fashioned in the shape of Dilmun boats. In this article the ideological concepts are outlined and discussed and a series of boat-shaped copper bowls from Babylonia are suggested as a possible match to the votive bowls shaped as Dilmun boats of the texts.

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为月神南娜准备的 Dilmun 船形还愿碗？

早期王朝的资料清楚地表明，存在一艘与对外海上贸易有关的独特的迪尔蒙船。巴比伦月神（Nanna/Suen/Sîn）象征性地与一个碗和一艘船联系在一起，在每月周期的各个阶段，在 Nanna 最终在满月时从碗和船上“升起”之前，它在夜空中航行。早期王朝 IIIa 时期的资料提到与月球周期中的“碗”阶段有关的实际还愿碗。在与不同神灵相关的文献资料中也提到了形状为船的还愿碗。Nanna 的船形碗可能是作为“碗”和“船”的循环概念的融合而存在的。重要的是，从阿拉伯海湾的角度来看，这些船形碗有时被明确表示为 Dilmun 船的形状。本文对意识形态概念进行了概述和讨论，并提出了一系列来自巴比伦的船形铜碗，作为与文本中的 Dilmun 船形状的还愿碗相匹配的可能。