Rumailah, UAE

Snake decoration on Iron Age pot recovered from Rumailah, Al Ain - on show at Al Ain National Museum.

Rumailah is an archaeological site in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates (UAE),[1] as well as the site of a thick-walled coral and adobe fort, thought to date to the early C20th.[2]

Located three kilometres west of Hili Archaeological Park, the rectangular mound at Rumailah is thought to have been home to populations dating back to the late Umm Al-Nar period, yielding buildings and artefacts from a more recent, major Iron Age settlement dated from 1000-500 BCE.

Finds

Finds at Rumailah include distinctive pottery adorned with snake patterns, similar to finds at Qusais, Masafi and the major Bronze Age and Iron Age metallurgical production centre at Saruq Al Hadid, as well as chlorite vessels decorated with turtles alternating with trees, similar to finds from Qidfa in Fujairah; Qusais in Dubai and Al-Hajar in Bahrain. A number of Iron age swords and axe-heads as well as distinctive seal moulds were also recovered from the site. A number of bronze arrowheads were also found at the site.

The Iron Age buildings found at Rumailah are typical of those found in the region, at Iron Age I and II sites such as Al Thuqeibah and Muweilah, with a number of row houses, although lacking the perimeter walls found at Thuqeibah.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Editor, Samir Salama, Associate (2011-12-30). "Al Ain bears evidence of a culture's ability to adapt". GulfNews. Retrieved 2018-08-07.
  2. ↑ User, Super. "Castles.nl - Al Rumailah Fort". www.castles.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 2018-08-07.
  3. ↑ Archaeology of the United Arab Emirates. Potts, Daniel T.,, Nābūdah, Ḥasan Muḥammad,, Hellyer, Peter,. London. pp. 174–7. ISBN 190072488X. OCLC 54405078.
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