Sar or Saar () is a residential town in

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, to the west of the capital,

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Education

St. Christopher's School
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Al Mahd Day Boarding School

The Budaiya Pre-School
# Saar Nursery # The Japanese School in Bahrain

Agriculture

The northern governorate of the Kingdom contains fertile land which contributes to Saar's lush green environment. Agriculture had a main economic factor in Baharin's growth. The

has a campus in Saar.

History

Saar is the site of a temple, known as "Saar Temple", built during the

Dilmun Dilmun, or Telmun, ( Sumerian: , later 𒉌𒌇(𒆠), ni.tukki = DILMUNki; ar, دلمون) was an ancient East Semitic-speaking civilization in Eastern Arabia mentioned from the 3rd millennium BC onwards. Based on contextual evidence, it was ...

era of Bahrain's history. The temple was believed to have played an important role in marking the

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Archaeology

Saar was discovered on a survey in 1977, and excavated in 1977-1979 under the direction of M. Ibrahim. Some unpublished work by a joint Bahraini-Jordanian expedition at Sarr in the 1980s. The site covers about 2.5 hectares in area. The London-Bahrain Archaeological Expedition was conducted at Saar between 1990 and 1999, led by Robert Killick, Jane Moon and Harriet Crawford.

Artifacts from Saar

Artifacts found within the households include copper fishhooks, bitumen nodules, and numerous shells from shellfish, including pearl oyster. The copper was produced in Bahrain; the bitumen imported from Mesopotamian quarry sites. Tiny seed pearls were found in the excavations, although they were probably too small to be used as ornaments. Several hundred seals, used to seal packages, bales and jars, have been found at the Saar settlement, and 48 seals from the associated burial ground: this is very unusual for a small town and unmatched on Bahrain. Four or five seals were found in a single house. All of the seals are of the early Dilmun style circa 2050 BC to 1800 BC.Olijdam, Eric. “Archival Practices in Early Dilmun Bahrain as Indicated by Glyptic Evidence from Domestic and Institutional Contexts (Poster).” Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, vol. 45, 2015, pp. 205–15

References

{{Northern Governorate of Bahrain Populated places in Bahrain