Excavations and Surveys of 2022 and 2023 at Wadi al-Maʻawil (Oman)

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Ahmed Fatima Kzzo, Alessandro Di Ludovico, Marco Ramazzotti
Sapienza Università Editrice, 15 ott 2025 - 278 pagine

During 2022 and 2023, our field activities focused on Wadi al-Maʻawil, a very large wadi close to the Muslimāt village in between Nakhal and Afī oasis, where in 2022 we discovered a completely unexplored and multifaceted ecotope. We selected a 10 x 10 Km squared area encompassing this ecotope after ground truthing because of the high intensity of the archaeological features and because it featured three adaptive conditions: the presence of large widyān with central terraces, the presence of an anthropized oasis and the presence of a possible ancient settlement pattern in which the anthropic features (settlements, graves, pathways) were almost close together and intervisible. This volume studies the landscape of the site and classifies, studies, and describes all the finds during the excavations and survey campaigns of 2022 and 2023.


 

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A. F. Kzzo al-Hajar al-Manqal Arabian Arabian Peninsula archaeological context archaeological mission arrowhead base beige biconical bead Bronze Age burial circle-dots cm Dating collected Color context courtesy MHT cylindrical bead dark grey definable Description Diam doughnut-shaped bead Early Iron Age Epigraphy excavation areas formed by horizontal fragment of stone fragments of bronze funerary geometrical decorations formed grave G1 Hafit tombs horizontal lines identified Iron Age period Jabal landscape layer located Locus MASPAG Material Measurements motif mound mountains N/A N/A WM23-Grass Nakhal Object oblique lines orange pendant petroglyphs Photo by A. F. potsherds pottery QField QGIS recovered rectangular chamber samples Sapienza Università shape shell sherds small stones soil Southwestern Cemetery stone vessel stone vessel fragment stratigraphic unit structure Sultanate Sultanate of Oman surface tourism truncated spindle bead vertical lines Wadi al-Ma‘awil Wadi Suq period wall western Worksite zig-zag lines

Informazioni sull'autore (2025)

Ahmed Fatima Kzzo, researcher at Sapienza University of Rome and field director in MASPAG. Previously, the director of the Prevention of Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Property project at the American Center of Research and a lecturer at Potsdam University.


Alessandro Di Ludovico, Dr in archaeology of West Asia, works at Museo Barracco (Rome). He has taken part in field campaigns in Syria, the Levant, and Oman. His main research interests deal with quantitative methods applied to archaeology and art history, and with perception and communication phenomena in antiquity.


Marco Ramazzotti, teaches Archaeology and Art History of Ancient Western Asia and Eastern Mediterranean at Sapienza University. In the Department of Sciences of Antiquity, he directs the Laboratory of Analytical Archeology and Adaptive Artificial Systems, the Atlas of the Ancient Near East, the Sapienza Archaeological Mission in the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf, and chairs the Course in Sciences of Sustainable Tourism.


Informazioni bibliografiche

TitoloExcavations and Surveys of 2022 and 2023 at Wadi al-Maʻawil (Oman)
Volume 122 di Materiali e documenti
CuratoriAhmed Fatima Kzzo, Alessandro Di Ludovico, Marco Ramazzotti
EditoreSapienza Università Editrice, 2025
ISBN8893773996, 9788893773997
Lunghezza278 pagine
  
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