Durand Stone

Durand Stone
MaterialBasalt
Sizelength: c. 75 cm
width: c. 27.5 cm
Createdc. 1378 BC
Present locationManama, Capital, Bahrain

The Durand Stone is an artifact in Bahrain dating back to the Kassite period (1600 BC — 1155 BC). Named after Captain Edward Law Durand who had first identified it, the stone is a 25–30 cm wide and 70–80 cm long black diorite sculpture identified by Durand as "shaped like the prow of a boat, or an animal's tongue" with inscriptions in "evidently Babylonian or Assyrian Cuneiform, but some of the characters look like hieroglyphs."

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