A bronze bowl from the Back Country of the Sultanate of Oman

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498 Paul Yule

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13 14

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37,38 6

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15 20

26 11 5

2 8 13

1 12 9 6

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10 > 600 m 1 - 600 m sea-level 0 m outside Oman

Legend

Sh arq iya h Masqat

Ba tin ah Z ah

ira h

Dakhliyah

25 35 36

39

32 30 34

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Map of the Late Preislamic Sites in South-eastern Arabia

1 Ab yah 2 al-Akh ar 3 al- Amq t 4 Sam ' il/al- Ayn 5 Ba la BB-04 6 Ba la BB-15 7 Bandar Ji a 8 al-Ba n 9 al-Bustan 10 al-Dhurra 11 Ja l n

ā ā ā

ī

ā

12 Kha r ' Ban Daff ' 13 Sam ' il/al-Khobbar 14 Ma al yah

15 Mana

ā ī ā

ā ī

16 al-Mask teh 17 al-Maysar 18 Multaqá 19 al-Mustagh 20 Mu 21 al-Nib ' 22 Quth ya

23 Ra' s al- add, HD-21 24 al-Rawdah/Muqatta 25 al-W fi/Rub yrat 26 al-Rustaq 27 Samad al-Sh n 28 al-Sar j 29 al-Sh riq

30 al-W fi/W. Muh rak ū

ī ā ā

ā ā

ā ū ā

ā ā

Late North Pre-Islamic Culture :

1 imah 2 Bithnah 3 ed-D r 4 al-Fuw ydah 5 Ghail al-Shabul 6 Julf r

7 al-Mais 8 Mlei a

9 Nud Ziba (al-Khatt) 10 Sam ' il/al-B r n 11 u r

12 Wa b 13 W. al-Qawr

Ā ū

ā ā

ā ā ū ī

ā Samad Assemblage :

Fig. credits

Fig. 1 Elevation data: National Geophysical Data Center, Boulder, Colorado, version Globe 1998

Digital Cartography, Dr Paul Yule, Bochum 19098 Fig. 4-7.22 P. Yule

Fig. 2.3 P. Pahlen Fig. 8-14 G. Weisgwrber Fig. 15-17 r. Boucharlat

Fig. 18-21 Deutsches Bergbau-Museum

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Scale

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2064 600.80

600.44

600.58

600.66

600.84

600.95

600.63

600.53 600.56

600.53 600.54

600.58

600.49

600.41

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599.98 600.22600.22

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599.95

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600.49 600.50 600.43

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599.95

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599.67 599.73

599.77 599.90

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600.32 600.38

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600.68

600.71

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600.63

600.59

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600.37

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600.23

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600.01 599.96

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599.91

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A Bronze Bowl from the Back Country of the Sultanate of Oman 499

Plan of the excavation at Amla/al Fueda ^{Fig. 2}

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0 1 2 m

v

600.82 m

600.70 m 1

500 Paul Yule

Grave Fu11 at al Fueda

The damaged bowl DA 13363 Fig. 3

Fig. 4

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Fig. 6 A Bronze Bowl from the Back Country of the Sultanate of Oman 501

a b c d

The bowl DA 13363 [drawing of profile]

The iconography of the motifs. DA 13363 from Fu11 1 goat

2 bird g o a t 3

ce n tau r 4

ca me l a n d rid e r 5

ho rse an d rid er 6 palm

7 lion

8 b u ll 9

stag 10

g o a t 11

ma n 12

man palm

14 camel

24 ca

me 25 l

lio n 2 6

goat 27 man 28 29 lion w in g e d fig . 3 0

la nd sc.

31 whirlpool 32 palm 13

lio n 15

lio n 1 6

g o a t 1 7

camel 18 ma n

19 ca

me l 2 0

ca me l 2 1

ca me l 2 2

ca me l 23

palm

direction in which the figures face

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b

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A Bronze Bowl from the Back Country of the Sultanate of Oman 503

Interior of the bowl with a vie of a man offering a goat

Interior of the bowl with a view of a man offering a goat

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A Bronze Bowl from the Back Country of the Sultanate of Oman 505

Interior of the bowl with a view mostly of lions and camels

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A Bronze Bowl from the Back Country of the Sultanate of Oman 506

Fig. 22 Fig. 21

Spoon of a ladle (DA 10614) from grave Bar1, Sama il

Bronze bowl from the Ja lan area of the Sharqiyah (DA 11406).

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0 10 cm

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