Amlah

Amlah

Amlah

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Amlah or ʿAmlāʾ (23°07′52″N 56°54′07″E), al-Dhāhirah province (41 km ESE of ʿIbrī), Sultanate of Oman. The area around Amlah contains numerous archaeological sites which came to light during surveys in the mid 1970s.[1] Those that are available to the public date from the Bronze Age Wadi Suq period to the late pre-Islamic period. 26 excavated graves provide evidence for a cemetery at al-Fuwaydah.[2] The graves and grave goods are related most closely to those of the United Arab Emirates, Preislamique Récente, i.e. PIR, and not the Samad Late Iron Age.[3] Among the most striking Late Iron Age finds are bronze phiales inscribed on the inside.[4]

Plan of the cemetery at ʿAmlāʾ/al-Fuwaydah which is attributed to the 'Pre-Islamic Recent Period'.
Storage jar with two handles and a gold-coloured glaze, excavated from grave Fu12 in ʿAmlāʾ/al-Fuwayda, attributable to the PIR.
Drawing of a bronze bowl excavated from a late pre-Islamic cemetery in Amlah/al-Fuwaydah.

References

  1. [1]
    • B. de Cardi, C. Collier, D.B. Doe, Excavations and Survey in Oman, Journal of Oman Studies 2, 1976, 101-187, ISSN 0378-8180
  2. [2]
    P. Yule, ʿAmlā/al-Zāhirah - Späteisenzeitliche Gräberfelder, Vorläufiger Bericht der Ausgrabungen 1997, in: P. Yule (ed.), Studies in the Archaeology of the Sultanate of Oman, Orient-Archäologie 2 (Rahdan 1999) 119-186, ISBN 3-89646-632-1
  3. [3]
    P. Yule, Cross-roads – Early and Late Iron Age South-eastern Arabia, Abhandlungen Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft, vol. 30, Wiesbaden 2014,62‒9 ISBN 978-3-447-10127-1
  4. [4]
    P. Yule, A Bronze Bowl from the Back Country of the Sultanate of Oman, in: (eds. J.-W. Mayer et al.) Beiträge zur vorderasiatischen Archäologie, Winfried Orthmann Gewidmet (Frankfurt Main 2001) 494-509, ISBN 3-00-007995-5;P. Yule‒C. Pariselle, Silver philae said to be from al-Juba (al-Wusta Governorate]‒an archaeological puzzle, Arab. Arch. and Epigraphy 27, 2016, 163‒4 ISSN 0905-7196.


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