Al-Akhdhar, Oman

Al-Akhdhar is an archaeological site in Ash Sharqiyah, Oman. It is a cemetery containing with remains dating from the Umm al-Nar, Wadi Suq, Late Iron Age (Samad), and Islamic periods.

Al-Akhdhar
The site in 1987
Location of the site in Oman
LocationAsh Sharqiyah, Oman
Coordinates22°50′38″N 58°10′39″E
Altitude576 m (1,890 ft)
History
Periods
Cultures
Site notes
Discovered1973–1974
Excavation dates
Archaeologists

Description
Plan of the site, 1981

The site is located next to the Wadi Samad. In 1973–4, Shaikh Hamdan al-Harthi, a resident of Samad al-Shan, informed the newly formed Department of Antiquities of the existence of pre-Islamic graves at this site. A British team lead by D. Brian Doe and Beatrice de Cardi surveyed the site and put it in their gazetteer.[1] In 1974, eight of the graves were excavated, but without any documentation.

In 1980, Gerd Weisgerber began to record the finds and visited the site when he could. In 1981, B. Vogt and A. Tillmann of the German Mining Museum in Bochum excavated the site. Paul Yule used some of the finds for his study of the Samad Late Iron Age.[2] A full report was published in 2015.[3]

This archaeological site, like most in the Sultanate is in danger of being built on or otherwise destroyed.

Further reading
  • Paul Yule, Die Gräberfelder in Samad al-Shan (Sultanat Oman): Materialien zu einer Kulturgeschichte (2001), ISBN 3-89646-634-8.
  • Paul 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
  • Paul A. Yule, Valourising the Samad Late Iron Age, Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 27/1, 2016, 31‒71.
  • Paul Yule, Gerd Weisgerber, The Cemetery at al-Akhḍar near Samad al-Shān in the Sharqīya (Oman), Der Anschnitt, Yule 2015, 111‒78

See also

References
  1. D.B. Doe, Gazetteer of sites in Oman, Jour. Oman Stud. 2, 1976, 39 fig. 1; B. de Cardi, Surface collections from Oman survey 1976, Jour. Om. Stud. 3.1, 1977, 59-60, fig. 1.1-25
  2. Paul Yule, Die Gräberfelder in Samad al-Shan (Sultanat Oman) Materialien zu einer Kulturgeschichte. Orient-Archäologie 4, Rahden 2001, vol. I 363-4 ISBN 3-89646-634-8 ; Paul 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, page 89
  3. P. Yule–G. Weisgerber†, The Cemetery at al-Akhḍar near Samad al-Shān in the Sharqīya (Oman), Der Anschnitt, Yule 2015, 111‒78.
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