The Chronology of the earliest Tylos period on Bahrain

Andersen, Søren Fredslund

doi:10.1034/j.1600-0471.2002.130205.x

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“…6c) (31). Four of Andersen's hemispherical bowl type in red‐slipped ware have been found with other vessels mainly belonging to Andersen's Phase 1 ( c. 200–50 BC) (32).…”

Section: The Pottery On Kervran's Alleged Sasanian Floormentioning

confidence: 95%

The dating of the Coastal Fortress at Qala'at al‐Bahrain: Sasanian or Islamic?

Højlund

2006

Arab Archaeol Epigr

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The dating of the Coastal Fortress at Qala'at al‐Bahrain to the Islamic period has been maintained by the Danish excavators since the building was uncovered in 1955–57. The French excavators have argued for a considerably earlier date, in the Sasanian period. The problem with this dating is firstly, the lack of Sasanian finds on the alleged early floor of the fortress and secondly, the status of this floor which is known only from very small trenches and more likely belongs to a Late Parthian architectural phase predating the fortress.

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“…6c) (31). Four of Andersen's hemispherical bowl type in red‐slipped ware have been found with other vessels mainly belonging to Andersen's Phase 1 ( c. 200–50 BC) (32).…”

Section: The Pottery On Kervran's Alleged Sasanian Floormentioning

confidence: 95%

The dating of the Coastal Fortress at Qala'at al‐Bahrain: Sasanian or Islamic?

Højlund

2006

Arab Archaeol Epigr

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“…19 On the archaeology of Hellenistic Bahrain, see Boucharlat (1986); Højlund and Andersen (1994); Kervran et al (2005); Andersen (2007). 20 450. similarly-constructed prominent military burial, dating to the Hellenistic period, has been found at the Janussan necropolis.…”

Section: Kosminmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…27 Sasanian period: Lombard and Kervran (1993); Islamic period: Højlund and Andersen (1994) 293; Højlund (2006). 28 Boucharlat and Salles (1987) 287-91; Lombard and Kervran (1993); Andersen (2002). 29 Callot (1994).…”

Section: Kosminmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…19 On the archaeology of Hellenistic Bahrain, see Boucharlat (1986); Højlund and Andersen (1994); Kervran et al (2005); Andersen (2007). 20 Salles (1986) Although this material evidence is by no means spectacular, 31 when combined with the new inscription it suggests the existence of a small Seleucid station, perhaps based at Qalat al-Bahrain at the north of the island, headed by an imperial official and staffed by a colonial population of Greeks, Babylonians and perhaps native Tylians.…”

Section: The Seleucid Gulfmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Rethinking the Hellenistic Gulf: The New Greek Inscription from Bahrain

Kosmin

2013

J. Hell. Stud.

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The recent discovery in Bahrain of a Greek inscription, dating to the 120s BC, transforms our understanding of the Arab-Persian Gulf in the Hellenistic period. The inscription, recording the dedication of a shrine to the Dioskouroi on behalf of the first independent king of Characene, indicates that Bahrain was a garrisoned node within the Seleucid Empire and the centre of the previously unknown archipelagic administrative district ‘Tylos (Bahrain) and the Islands’. Seleucid and Characenian control of Bahrain is placed within the longue durée political history of relations between southern Mesopotamia and Dilmun. The cultic dedication to the Dioskouroi traces the consciously Hellenizing modalities of Characenian emancipation from the Seleucid Empire and the development of a coherent maritime religious network in the Gulf.

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“…The Shakhoura Mound A1 1996/97 can safely be placed within the new burial tradition that developed from around 200 BC in Bahrain (12) and continued for the next 500-600 years. The few gravegoods in the two wooden coffins do not enable a closer dating, but one sample from the cover of Coffin 1 (sample 6) and two samples from Coffin 2 (sample 3b and 4b) were sent for radiocarbon dating at the AMS C 14 Dating Laboratory, Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus.…”

Section: Datingmentioning

confidence: 99%