In January 2014, the upgrading of the Sinaw-Mahout-Duqm Expressway made necessary the excavation of several clusters of graves along the banks of Wadi Uyun, which would have been eventually destroyed by the road track. The forty funerary structures excavated testify to a millenary occupation of this area, which was inhabited from the end of the fourth millennium BC onward. Though results have been extremely significant for all historical periods, the most interesting discovery has been a funerary complex dating to the first half of the first millennium AD, composed by the underground deposition of a 50-years old man and by the adjoined graves of two Arabian camels buried in separate pits, which were sacrificed in the course of a complex ceremony.
Il Signore del Deserto di Sinaw - The Desert Lord of Sinaw
ELENA MAINI;
2019
Abstract
In January 2014, the upgrading of the Sinaw-Mahout-Duqm Expressway made necessary the excavation of several clusters of graves along the banks of Wadi Uyun, which would have been eventually destroyed by the road track. The forty funerary structures excavated testify to a millenary occupation of this area, which was inhabited from the end of the fourth millennium BC onward. Though results have been extremely significant for all historical periods, the most interesting discovery has been a funerary complex dating to the first half of the first millennium AD, composed by the underground deposition of a 50-years old man and by the adjoined graves of two Arabian camels buried in separate pits, which were sacrificed in the course of a complex ceremony.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
