The Sapienza Archaeological Mission in the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf (MASPAG) is an interdisci- plinary research team founded in the Sapienza’s Department of Sciences of Antiquity in 2020 to support, undertake and promote excavations, surveys, anthropological researches and epigraphic-linguistic studies in the Arabian Peninsula and in the countries of Gulf. The mission currently operates in northern Oman in collaboration with the Ministry of Heritage and Tourism of the Sultanate of Oman, and since 2019 thanks to the funding of Sapienza Grandi Scavi to which was added in 2022 the recognition and a co-financing of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. The interdisciplinary research team is support- ing the completion of the decennial excavation of the very rich collective grave LCG-2 at Dibba ̄ al-Bayah in the Musandam Peninsula which dates back to the end of the Bronze Age, a possible excavation on the strat- ified settlement of Shokur, next to the Dhank Oasis in northwestern Oman and a new project of landscape archaeology in the southern Batinah in between the oasis of Nakhal, al-’Awabi and Wadi al-Ma’awil. The conclusion of the excavation of LCG-2 at Dibba ̄ al-Bayah, the possible excavation at Shokur and the new surveys and excacations in southern Batinah project Maspag’s researches towards an integrated study of the funerary, settlement and landscape contexts of central-northern Oman, from the beginning of the Bronze Age to the end of the Iron Age. This extension of research to the integrated study of funerary contexts, human mobility and adaptation in central-northern Oman intends to refine our historical-geographical knowledge of nomadism in south-eastern Arabia, i.e. of those nomadic cultures with a strong territorial and political identity recorded in the Syrian and Mesopotamian texts since the second half of the 3rd Millennium BCE such as the Civilization of Magan.
Le ricerche della missione archeologica della Sapienza nella Penisola Arabica e nel Golfo (MASPAG) in Oman settentrionale / Ramazzotti, Marco. - In: SCIENZE DELL'ANTICHITÀ. - ISSN 1123-5713. - 29/3(2024), pp. 347-374.
Le ricerche della missione archeologica della Sapienza nella Penisola Arabica e nel Golfo (MASPAG) in Oman settentrionale
Marco Ramazzotti
Writing – Review & Editing
2024
Abstract
The Sapienza Archaeological Mission in the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf (MASPAG) is an interdisci- plinary research team founded in the Sapienza’s Department of Sciences of Antiquity in 2020 to support, undertake and promote excavations, surveys, anthropological researches and epigraphic-linguistic studies in the Arabian Peninsula and in the countries of Gulf. The mission currently operates in northern Oman in collaboration with the Ministry of Heritage and Tourism of the Sultanate of Oman, and since 2019 thanks to the funding of Sapienza Grandi Scavi to which was added in 2022 the recognition and a co-financing of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. The interdisciplinary research team is support- ing the completion of the decennial excavation of the very rich collective grave LCG-2 at Dibba ̄ al-Bayah in the Musandam Peninsula which dates back to the end of the Bronze Age, a possible excavation on the strat- ified settlement of Shokur, next to the Dhank Oasis in northwestern Oman and a new project of landscape archaeology in the southern Batinah in between the oasis of Nakhal, al-’Awabi and Wadi al-Ma’awil. The conclusion of the excavation of LCG-2 at Dibba ̄ al-Bayah, the possible excavation at Shokur and the new surveys and excacations in southern Batinah project Maspag’s researches towards an integrated study of the funerary, settlement and landscape contexts of central-northern Oman, from the beginning of the Bronze Age to the end of the Iron Age. This extension of research to the integrated study of funerary contexts, human mobility and adaptation in central-northern Oman intends to refine our historical-geographical knowledge of nomadism in south-eastern Arabia, i.e. of those nomadic cultures with a strong territorial and political identity recorded in the Syrian and Mesopotamian texts since the second half of the 3rd Millennium BCE such as the Civilization of Magan.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
