Royal Mounds of A ali in Bahrain
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The Royal Mounds of A'ali in Bahrain has long been shrouded in mystery and suspected to be the final resting place of the Bronze Age kings of Dilmun. Puzzled by their great size explorers and professional archaeologists have for hundreds of years attempted to penetrate their interior and wrestle secrets and treasures from the tombs. This book presents information from the early days of archaeological exploration at A'ali as well as new data from the joint Bahrain - Moesgaard Museum investigations 2010 -2016 directed by the author. The evidence from both old and new field explorations at A'ali are meticulously analyzed. The results are discussed with a strong focus on the royal cemetery as an institution, using a theoretical approach based on the anthropology and ethnography of death rituals. Emphasis is also placed on developing an architectural typology and a radio-carbon based chronology of the royal tombs at A'ali. In this study, vast quantities of hitherto unpublished data from excavations in the burial mounds of Bahrain is integrated to allow a more informed and diachronic picture of the evolution in tomb architecture, death rituals and social organization in the Early Dilmun period, c. 2200-1700 BC. Philological evidence is presented which demonstrates that the entombed kings were of Amorite ancestry. The study reveals that the Amorite Dynasty buried at A'ali emerged with the formation of huge monumental tombs in a royal cemetery proper around 2000-1900 BC and lost its grip on power c. 1700 BC.

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Date de parution 21 décembre 2017
Nombre de lectures 0
EAN13 9788793423190
Langue English
Poids de l'ouvrage 76 Mo

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Steffe Terp Laursen
The Royal Mounds of A’ali in Bahrain
The Royal Mounds
of A’ali in Bahrain
The Emergence of Kingship in Early Dilmun
Steffe Terp Laursen
Jutland Archaeological Society
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The Emergence of Kingship in Early Dilmun
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Gianni Marchesi, Jesper Olsen & Thomas Van de Velde
Jutland Archaeological Society, Moesgaard Museum, Denmark
Bahrain Authority for Culture & Aniquiies
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107642_Royal Mounds_CC17_.indd 2 24/11/17 10:45 107642_Royal Mounds_CC17_r1_.indd 3 30-11-2017 0:3:04The Royal Mounds of A’ali in Bahrain
The Emergence of Kingship in Early Dilmun
© Stefen Terp Laursen 2017 and individual authors
ISBN 978-87-93423-19-0
Jutland Archaeological Society Publica�ions vol. 100
Digiizing plans and secions: Jonatan Rose Andersen, Stefen Terp Laursen,
Karl Hjalte Maack Raun
Drawings: Jonatan Rose Andersen, Casper Skaaning Andersen, Peter Moe Astrup,
David Pretzel Bennetsen, Claus Feveile, Jakob Fink, Lene Behrmann Frandsen,
Andreas Nymark Jensen, Michael Vinter Jensen, Stefen Terp Laursen,
Ufe Lind Rasmussen, Karl Hjalte Maack Raun
English revision: Lisa Yeomans & Sharon Rhodes.
Graphic design: Jonatan Rose Andersen, Stefen Terp Laursen, Lars Foged Thomsen
Layout and cover: Louise Hilmar / Ea Rasmussen. Cover photo: P.V. Glob
Photos: Casper Skaaning Andersen, Peter Moe Astrup, David Pretzel Bennetsen, T.G. Bibby,
Claus Feveile, Jakob Fink, Lene Behrmann Frandsen, P.V. Glob, Flemming Højlund, Andreas
Nymark Jensen, Jens Vellev, Michael Vinter Jensen, Nanna Kirkeby, Stefen Terp Laursen,
Ufe Lind Rasmussen, Karl Hjalte Maack Raun, Juris Zarins, Bahrain Authority for Culture &
An�iqui ies, Car ier Heritage Department, CVMVS Museum Mumbai, Moesgaard Museum
E-book producion: Narayana Press
Published by: Jutland Archaeological Society in coopera�ion with Moesgaard Museum
and Bahrain Authority for Culture & An�iqui ies
Distributed by Aarhus University Press
Finlandsgade 29
DK-8200 Aarhus N
www.unipress.dk
Published with support of the Carlsberg Founda�ion
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107642_Royal Mounds_CC17_r1_.indd 4 30-11-2017 14:30:57The Royal Mounds of A’ali in Bahrain ContentThe Emergence of Kingship in Early Dilmun
© Stefen Terp Laursen 2017 and individual authors
Jutland Archaeological Society Publica�ions vol. 100
Digiizing plans and secions: Jonatan Rose Andersen, Stefen Terp Laursen,
Karl Hjalte Maack Raun
Drawings: Jonatan Rose Andersen, Casper Skaaning Andersen, Peter Moe Astrup,
David Pretzel Bennetsen, Claus Feveile, Jakob Fink, Lene Behrmann Frandsen,
Andreas Nymark Jensen, Michael Vinter Jensen, Stefen Terp Laursen,
Ufe Lind Rasmussen, Karl Hjalte Maack Raun 1. Introduction .................................................................................................................................................................................................9
English revision: Lisa Yeomans & Sharon Rhodes.
Graphic design: Jonatan Rose Andersen, Stefen Terp Laursen, Lars Foged Thomsen
2. The early explorers and exploration history of A’ali ............................................. 11
Layout and cover: Louise Hilmar / Ea Rasmussen. Cover photo: P.V. Glob An anonymous Englishman, before 1782 .............................................................................................................................. 11
Captain (later Sir) Edward Law Durand, 1878-79 .......................................................................................................... 11Photos: Casper Skaaning Andersen, Peter Moe Astrup, David Pretzel Bennetsen, T.G. Bibby,
Claus Feveile, Jakob Fink, Lene Behrmann Frandsen, P.V. Glob, Flemming Højlund, Andreas th Ofcers of HMS Sphinx after May 1886 and before February 8 1889 .........................................................12
Nymark Jensen, Jens Vellev, Michael Vinter Jensen, Nanna Kirkeby, Stefen Terp Laursen,
th th James Theodore and Mabel Bent, 8 -18 February 1889 ..........................................................................................12Ufe Lind Rasmussen, Karl Hjalte Maack Raun, Juris Zarins, Bahrain Authority for Culture &
An�iqui ies, Car ier Heritage Department, CVMVS Museum Mumbai, Moesgaard Museum André Jouannin, 1903 .............................................................................................................................................................................13
Lieutenant Colonel Francis Beville Prideaux, 1906-190814
Jacques Cartier, 1911 ................................................................................................................................................................................16
Published by: Jutland Archaeological Society in coopera�ion with Moesgaard Museum
Ernest John Henry Mackay, 1925 ..................................................................................................................................................16and Bahrain Authority for Culture & An�iqui ies
Ronald Sinclair’s unconrmed report of German archaeologists, 1929 ......................................................17
Charles Belgrave and the RAF, 1944 ..........................................................................................................................................18Distributed by Aarhus University Press
Finlandsgade 29
Danish Gulf Expedition, 1960-63 ..................................................................................................................................................18
DK-8200 Aarhus N
Abdul Aziz Suweileh, 1982 ................................................................................................................................................................19www.unipress.dk
Bahrain National Museum, c. 1987, c. 1998 and 2009-2012 ....................................................................................19
Extract from Nāṣir al-Khayrī 2003 ...............................................................................................................................................19
3. Gazetteer of elite burial mounds previously
investigated in A’ali ..................................................................................................................................................................21
4. Recent investigations .............................................................................................................................................................85
Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................................................................85
Research objectives and strategy...................................................................................................................................................85
Dates and participants ...........................................................................................................................................................................87
Excavation reports .....................................................................................................................................................................................88Mound A (Gazetteer no. 2) ....................................89
Mound D (Gazetteer no. 6) ....................................95Mound E (Gazetteer no. 7) ..............................................................................................................................................................99
Mound H (Gazetteer no. 10) ...................................................................................................................................................... 118Mound L (Gazetteer no. 14) ........................................................................................................................................................122
Mound M (Gazetteer no. 15) .....................................................................................................................................................130Mound N (Gazetteer no. 16) ......................................................................................................................................................130
Published with support of the Carlsberg Founda�ion
4 5
107642_Royal Mounds_CC17_r1_.indd 4 30-11-2017 14:30:57 107642_Royal Mounds_CC17_.indd 5 24/11/17 10:45 The central parts .......................................................................................................................................................................................147
The eastern area ........................................................................................................................................................................................157
Artefacts ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................160
Main results and reconstruction

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