Amlah

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

Amlah or ʿAmlah (23°07'52N"; 56°54'07"E), al-Dhāhirah province (ʿIbri), Sultanate of Oman. The area around Amlah contains numerous archaeological sites. Those that are available to the public date from the Bronze Age Wadi Suq period to the late pre-Islamic period. The cemtery at al-Fuwaydah is known from 26 excavated graves. The finds are related most closely to those of the UAE, Preislamique Récente, i.e. PIR, and not the Samad Late Iron Age.

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
• P. Yule, Cross-roads – Early and Late Iron Age South-eastern Arabia, Abhandlungen Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft, vol. 30, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-447-10127-1