Amlah or ʿAmlāʾ () is a location in al-Dhāhirah province (41 km ESE of ʿIbrī),

Sultanate of Oman Oman, officially the Sultanate of Oman, is a country located on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in West Asia and the Middle East. It shares land borders with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. Oman’s coastline ...

. 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 The Bronze Age () was a historical period characterised principally by the use of bronze tools and the development of complex urban societies, as well as the adoption of writing in some areas. The Bronze Age is the middle principal period of ...

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

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, Preislamique Récente, i.e. PIR, and not the Samad Late Iron Age. Among the most striking

Late Iron Age The Iron Age () is the final epoch of the three historical Metal Ages, after the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age. It has also been considered as the final age of the three-age division starting with prehistory (before recorded history) and progr ...

finds are bronze phiales inscribed on the inside. 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, ; 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 .

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