Failaka/Dilmun. the Second Millennium Settlements. Volume 6 - (Failaka. Dilmun, Jysk Arkæologisk Selskabs Skrifter) by Flemming Hojlund (Paperback)

About the Book

The present monograph presents the remaining objects from excavations: copper weapons, tools and ornaments, crucibles, moulds and ingots, metal analyses, cuneiform inscriptions, miniature sculptures, and artefacts of stone, pottery, glass, bone, ivory, shell, gold, plaster, pearls, silver, iron and bitumen.

Book Synopsis

Excavations in 1958-1963 of two tells on the island of Failaka in Kuwait, Tell F3 and Tell F6, uncovered a small Dilmun community from the second millennium BC. The results of these excavations have been presented in five monographs dealing with the stamp and cylinder seals (KjAerum 1983), the pottery (Hlund 1987), the architecture (KjAerum & Hlund 2013), the stone vessels (Hilton 2014), and the beads (Andersson 2022). The present monograph, the sixth and final, presents the remaining objects from these excavations, that is, copper weapons, tools and ornaments, crucibles, moulds and ingots, metal analyses (Weeks et al.), cuneiform inscriptions (Marchesi), miniature sculptures (Pittman & Mulder), and artefacts of stone (Hilton), pottery, glass (Andersson), bone, ivory, shell, gold, plaster, pearls, silver, iron and bitumen (Strehle). The concluding chapter gives an overview of the development of the Bronze Age settlement of Failaka.