Amlah or ʿAmlāʾ (23°07′52″N 56°54′07″E / 23.13111°N 56.90194°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. 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. 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. Among the most striking Late Iron Age finds are bronze phiales inscribed on the inside.
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, 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
- ^ 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
- ^ 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.
