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Husn Salut and the Iron Age of South East Arabia. Excavations of the Italian Mission to Oman 2004-2014
Avanzini Alessandra Avanzini, Degli Esposti Michele Degli Esposti
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Beschreibung
In late March 2004 the bases for a demanding but greatly rewarding and stimulating enterprise were set, when the original members of the Italian Mission to Oman (hereinafter, IMTO) carried out a preliminary survey in the close surroundings of the site of Salut, near Bisya in central Oman (fig. 1). 1 Although it had entered the archaeological liter - ature not less than 40 years earlier, from this moment on the role of Salut in the understanding of South east Arabia’s 2 ancient has been radically transformed, thanks to the program of extensive excavation that has been since conducted by the IMTO. In fact, it seems that, following a preliminary reconnaissance by J.C. Wilkinson in February 1973, 3 the members of the harvard Archaeological Survey in the Sultanate of Oman, who recorded it as site BB-15, first surveyed the site of Salut in winter 1973. Based on the surface material, two major periods of occupation were determined: “one in the latter half of the first millennium B.C. and one in the 13 th -14 th centuries A.D.”. 4 Later, D.S. Whitcomb published the surface collection of medieval pottery. 5 In winter 1974-1975 the site was also visited by the archaeologists of the British Archaeological expedition and was listed in their ‘Gazetteer’ as site 38. 6 however, none of these surveys included excavation, and the site presented itself as archaeologically pristine to the IMTO’s trowels and shovels. The excavation of what is now referred to as ‘husn Salut’ 7 was to last for more than ten years, finally revealing a site that has undoubtedly to be listed as one of the most impressive archaeological monuments of South east Arabia. however, new tasks await, and the project is now finding its natural continuation in the excavation of the associated, substantial Iron Age settlement of ‘Qaryat Salut’.
