Grimm, Gersmann & Tropato, eds. Raptor on the fist – falconry, its imagery and similar motifs throughout the millennia on a global scale, Vol. 2/1, 2020
South-east Arabia was a hub on the international trade routes connecting the Hellenistic/Roman wo... more South-east Arabia was a hub on the international trade routes connecting the Hellenistic/Roman world, Mesopotamia and south Arabia with India and Pakistan during the Late Pre-Islamic Period (3rd century BCE – 3rd century CE). The first raptor images occur on 3rd century BCE local coins
that copied the image of a seated Zeus with eagle from the Greek Alexander coins. Most probably, however, it was seen as the representation of the Arabian sun god Shamash. Eagles or raptor statues
were discovered at the harbour site ed-Dur in a temple and at the entrance of a fort that had been reused as a burial site. These statues are usually interpreted as representing the god Shamash but eagles
can also stand for other Arabian deities or simply refer to royalty. The paper looks at the archaeological context of these discoveries and reviews their interpretations.
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The volume first discusses the regional SE-Arabian Abiel coinage and the presence of foreign coins, followed by metal finds and beads, bone and ivory, stone, pottery, shell, coral, glass and plaster objects.
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Persian Translation of the 2003 English publication "Luristan Excavation Documents vol. IV" (Acta Iranica 40), ISBN 90-1243-X (Peeters Leuven)
translation by Kamal Alden NIKNAMI & Amir Saed MUCHESHI (published April 1392/2020)
Was den Schatz so wertvoll macht, ist jedoch nicht das Material, sondern die hohe Qualität der Verarbeitung, die exotische Schönheit einiger der Gefäße, vor allem aber die Tatsache, dass er eine einzigartige Quelle für die Erforschung von kulturellen Verbindungen zwischen der mediterranen Welt und den nomadischen Gesellschaften Eurasiens darstellt. Dazu hat das RGZM in Zusammenarbeit mit der Antikensammlung des Kunsthistorischen Museums 2010 in Wien eine Tagung veranstaltet, deren Ergebnisse in teils stark erweiterter Form hier vorgestellt werden. Die Artikel befassen sich mit allgemeinen Fragen zum gegenwärtigen Forschungsstand (Csanád Bálint), den Ergebnissen aus goldschmiedetechnischen Untersuchungen und Materialanalysen (Viktor Freiberger und Birgit Bühler), den möglichen Zusammenhängen zwischen dem Schatz und der sasanidischen Kultur (Ádám Bollók und Bruno Overlaet) und den Inschriften des Goldschatzes im byzantinischen Kontext (Stefan Albrecht).
that copied the image of a seated Zeus with eagle from the Greek Alexander coins. Most probably, however, it was seen as the representation of the Arabian sun god Shamash. Eagles or raptor statues
were discovered at the harbour site ed-Dur in a temple and at the entrance of a fort that had been reused as a burial site. These statues are usually interpreted as representing the god Shamash but eagles
can also stand for other Arabian deities or simply refer to royalty. The paper looks at the archaeological context of these discoveries and reviews their interpretations.
remnant carburized areas preserved; (2) Identifying metallographic structures and evaluating the carbon content from the observation of remnant carburized areas; (3) Developing an understanding of the representativeness of remnant carburized areas in corroded ferrous
samples; and (4) Exploring the validity and technical constraints of SEM-EDS analyses of slag inclusions in corroded iron artefacts for the determination of provenance.
Sr isotopic composition of the glass corresponds to locally available plants, pointing to the possible existence of a first-century CE local glass production centre.
To explore this possibility, sands from around the UAE were analysed to establish their suitability for glass making and correspondence with the Dibba finds. This paper presents the results of the elemental analysis of fourteen sands. The analysis, performed using inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectroscopy (ICP-OES), revealed all sands to be rich in lime and alumina. X-ray diffraction revealed the presence of calcite and other carbonate minerals, as well as antigorite and quartz. Comparison of the sand compositions to average first-century CE
non-Roman glass found at Dibba showed them to be unsuitable as raw material for producing the glass of Dibba. The evidence thus identifies this glass batch as imported, contrary to what was suggested before. This paper also reviews the occurrence of thick-walled unguentaria in the region.