Distance:
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Site : Mleiha- Sharjah
Period : Pre-Islamic
Material : Stone
Width : 13 cm
Height : 87 cm
Diameter : 52 cm
Bilingual South-Arabian / Aramaic funerary inscription discovered inside the burial chamber of tomb FA-5, Mleiha, Sharjah, UAE. Central panel in south Arabian script, text along the rim in Aramaic. Text reads “Memorial and tomb of Amud son of Gurr son of Ali, inspector of the king of Oman, which built over him his son Amud son of Amud son if Gurr, inspector of the king of Oman.” Dated to either 222/221 or 215/214 BCE. First record evidence of an Oman Kingdom.
Bronze Lion Foot, part of the Incense burner. Mleiha, Sharjah. 2nd century BCE. Sharjah, UAE. In storage at the Sharjah Archaeology Authority. Read More
Glazed pottery jar from the site of Dibba al-Hisin, Sharjah, UAE. dating to 100 CE, the Pre-Islamic Period. Read More
Iron Age Bronze Arrowhead, Jebel al-Buhais, Sharjah, UAE. On display in the Mleiha Archaeological Center. 1st millennium BCE. Read More