Ṭīwī () is a town in
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 ...
. It is known for an
archaeological site
An archaeological site is a place (or group of physical sites) in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either prehistoric or recorded history, historic or contemporary), and which has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline ...
in the area known as
al-Jurayf, in
Ṣūr Wilayat Sharqiyah. The town and the site are located between
Wadi Shab and
Wadi Tiwi
Wadi Tiwi is a canyon, 40km north of Sur, Oman, Sur in the Ash Sharqiyah Region (Oman), Ash Sharqiyah Region of Oman. Dramatically situated where the Hajar Mountains reach the sea at Tiwi, Oman, Tiwi and enclosed by steep canyon walls, Wadi Tiwi ...
on the
Gulf of Oman
The Gulf of Oman or Sea of Oman ( ''khalīj ʿumān''; ''daryâ-ye omân''), also known as Gulf of Makran or Sea of Makran ( ''khalīj makrān''; ''daryâ-ye makrān''), is a gulf in the Indian Ocean that connects the Arabian Sea with th ...
.
Archaeological site
This fortified village was inhabited in the
Samad
Samad or Samed (, ''Ṣamad'') is an Arabic male given name.
Given name
*Abd al-Samad ibn Ali, Abbasid governor of Jazira in 780s.
* Samed Abdul Awudu (born 1984), Ghanaian football player
*Samad Nikkhah Bahrami (born 1983), Iranian basketball p ...
Late Iron Age and during Islamic times. It is known as Tiwi site TW2 (22°49'14.38"N, 59°15'34.00"E, 75 m altitude).
The archaeological site lies inside the cusp of a mountain and contains surface finds attributable to the
Samad
Samad or Samed (, ''Ṣamad'') is an Arabic male given name.
Given name
*Abd al-Samad ibn Ali, Abbasid governor of Jazira in 780s.
* Samed Abdul Awudu (born 1984), Ghanaian football player
*Samad Nikkhah Bahrami (born 1983), Iranian basketball p ...
Late Iron Age It lies 700 m west of the coast. Hidden behind the easternmost cusp of a volcanic wall, this settlement is little visible from the sea or the nearby coastal road. It was mapped and surveyed in 2002.
To the north-west, north and east of the settlement extensive Late Iron Age settlements occurred. The preservation condition and our recording methods condition the appearance of the resulting sketch. It was re-mapped in 2014. The site seems to have been in sporadic use into the recent period. Shortly after investigation the site was badly bull-dozed in order to build the coastal motorway and to develop the area commercially.
[ Paul Yule, Valorising the Samad Late Iron Age, ''Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy'' 27/1, 2016, 60‒62 Figs. 22-25, ]
See also
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Archaeology of Oman
The present-day Sultanate of Oman lies in the south-eastern Arabian Peninsula. There are different definitions for Oman: traditional Oman includes the present-day United Arab Emirates, United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.), though its prehistoric remains d ...
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Samad al-Shan
Samad al-Shan (22°48'N; 58°09'E, altitude 565 m) is an archaeological site in the Sharqiyah province, Oman where Late Iron Age remains were first identified, hence the Samad Period or assemblage.
This oasis is located 2 km east of ...
Sources
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Jürgen Schreiber, ''Transformationsprozesse in Oasensiedlungen Omans. Die vorislamische Zeit am Beispiel von Izki, Nizwa und dem Jebel Akhdar. Dissertation, Munich, 2007.'' URL http://edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de/7548/1/Schreiber_Juergen.pdf
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Paul Yule, ''Die Gräberfelder in Samad al-Shan (Sultanat Oman): Materialien zu einer Kulturgeschichte'' (Rahden 2001),
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Paul Yule, ''Cross-roads – Early and Late Iron Age South-eastern Arabia'', Abhandlungen Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft, vol. 30, Wiesbaden 2014,
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Paul Yule, Valourising the Samad Late Iron Age, ''Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy'' 27/1, 2016, 31‒71, .
References
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External links
*http://heidicon.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/pool/oman
Archaeological sites in Oman