<P> There is extensive presence of Harappan seals and cubical weight measures in Mesopotamian urban sites . Specific items of high volume trade are timber and specialty wood such as ebony, for which large ships were used . Luxury items also appear, such as lapis lazuli mined at a Harappan colony at Shortugai (modern Badakhshan in northern Afghanistan), which was transported to Lothal, a port city in Gujarat in western India, and shipped from there to Oman, Bahrain and Sumer . </P> <P> Almost all scholars suggest that Meluhha was the Sumerian name for the Indus Valley Civilization . Finnish scholars Asko and Simo Parpola identify Meluhha (earlier variant Me - lah - ha) from earlier Sumerian documents with Dravidian mel akam "high abode" or "high country". Many items of trade such as wood, minerals, and gemstones were indeed extracted from the hilly regions near the Indus settlements . They further claim that Meluhha is the origin of the Sanskrit mleccha, meaning "barbarian, foreigner". </P> <P> Early texts (c. 2200 BC) seem to indicate that Meluhha is to the east, suggesting either the Indus valley or India . Sargon of Akkad was said to have "dismantled the cities, as far as the shore of the sea . At the wharf of Agade, he docked ships from Meluhha, ships from Magan ." </P> <P> Writings in the Ur - III period describe Meluhha as the' land of the black mountains' . It may also be referred to by this name in a poem praising King Shulgi, reigning in about 2000 BC, in which he claims (among other accomplishments) to understand the language of men' from the black mountains' well enough to talk to them without interpreter, and when sitting as a judge to provide them with verdicts in their own language . Of five foreign languages he can speak well (one apparently the increasingly ossified Sumerian language of his homeland), this is the third to be listed . </P>

Which region was known as meluha during harappan period