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THE DILMUN TEMPLE AT SAAR Saar Excavation Report Vol 1 Harriet Crawford, Robert Killick and Jane Moon (eds.) £35 hardback ISBN 0-7103-0487-0 116 pages, 211 illustrations, including many in colour. Four thousand years ago the land of Dilmun (ancient Bahrain) lay at the crossroads between the civilized world and the mysterious East. Its merchants prospered greatly from a lucrative trade in copper and luxury goods. In this volume, the structure and contents of the temple at the Dilmun settlement of Saar are presented in detail. An introduction places the Saar site in its historical and geographical context, and there are chapters on the architecture, the finds in the temple including seals and pottery, the dating of the temple, and on Dilmun society and the evidence for cultic practices.
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EARLY DILMUN SEALS FROM SAAR Art and Commerce in Bronze Age Bahrain Saar Excavation Report Vol 2 by Harriet Crawford £35 hardback ISBN 0-9539561-0-5 109 pages, many colour illustrations The excavations at Saar produced the largest single corpus of Bronze Age seals and sealings found in Bahrain, the centre of the Dilmun civilization (2000 BC). This material forms a unique record of the art of the period, and provides valuable information about the commercial activities of the inhabitants of Saar. An introductory text describes the study of seals and sealings. The accompanying catalogue contains details of over two hundred seals and sealings, and is lavishly illustrated with colour photographs |
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THE EARLY DILMUN SETTLEMENT AT SAAR Saar Excavation Report Vol 3 Robert Killick And Jane Moon (eds.) £60 hardback ISBN 0-9539561-1-3 368 pages, 244 colour photographs, 186 colour graphics This volume reports on the excavation of over seventy buildings in the Dilmun settlement at Saar, some of which were extraordinarily well preserved with walls standing in places to roof height. The development and architecture are described, and there are chapters on the contents of the buildings, domestic installations, food remains, metalwork, pottery, and other household utensils. |