Amlah

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Bronze bowl excavated from a late pre-Islamic cemetery in Amlah/al-Fuwaydah
Bronze bowl excavated from a late pre-Islamic cemetery in Amlah/al-Fuwaydah
Bronze bowl excavated from a late pre-Islamic cemetery in Amlah/al-Fuwaydah
Bronze bowl excavated from a late pre-Islamic cemetery in Amlah/al-Fuwaydah

Amlah, (‘Amlah), 23°07'52N"; 56°54'07"E), al-Zāhirah province, Sultanate of Oman. The area around Amlah contains numerous archaeological sites. Those that are published date from the Bronze Age Wadi Suq Period to the late pre-Islamic Period. The latter have relations to sites in the present-day United Arab Emirates.


References

B. de Cardi, C. Collier, D.B. Doe, Excavations and Survey in Oman, Journal of Oman Studies 2, 1976, 101-187, ISSN 0378-8180

P. Yule, ‘Amla/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

Paul 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