Tiwi, Oman

This fortified village was inhabited in the Samad Late Iron Age and during Islamic times. It is known as Tiwi site TW2 (22°49'14.38"N, 59°15'34.00"E, 75 m altitude).

The archaeological site lies inside the cusp of a mountain and contains surface finds attributable to the Samad Late Iron Age Paul Yule, Die Gräberfelder in Samad al-Shan (Sultanat Oman) Materialien zu einer Kulturgeschichte. Orient-Archäologie 4, Rahden 2001, {{ISBN|3-89646-634-8}} [http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/yule2001text]; Paul Yule, Cross-roads – Early and Late Iron Age South-eastern Arabia, Abhandlungen Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft, vol. 30, Wiesbaden 2014, {{ISBN|978-3-447-10127-1}}, pages 47-74; J. Schreiber, Transformationsprozesse in Oasensiedlungen Omans. Die vorislamische Zeit am Beispiel von Izki, Nizwa und dem Jebel Akhdar. Dissertation, 2007, Munich, 141-144, 276-279, URL http://edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de/7548/1/Schreiber_Juergen.pdf

It lies 700 m west of the coast. Hidden behind the easternmost cusp of a volcanic wall, this settlement is little visible from the sea or the nearby coastal road. It was mapped and surveyed in 2002.Korn, L. – Häser, J. – Schreiber, J. – Gangler, A. – Nagieb, M. – Siebert, S. – Buerkert, A., Ṭīwī, Ash Shab and Wadi Tiwi: the Development of an Oasis on the North-eastern Coast of Oman, Journal Oman Stud. 13, 2004: 57–90 {{ISSN|0378-8180}}.

To the north-west, north and east of the settlement extensive Late Iron Age settlements occurred. The preservation condition and our recording methods condition the appearance of the resulting sketch. It was re-mapped in 2014. The site seems to have been in sporadic use into the recent period. Shortly after investigation the site was badly bull-dozed in order to build the coastal motorway and to develop the area commercially.Paul Yule, Valorising the Samad Late Iron Age, Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 27/1, 2016, 60‒62 Figs. 22-25, {{ISSN|0905-7196}}

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• Archaeology of Oman
• Samad al-Shan

• Jürgen Schreiber, Transformationsprozesse in Oasensiedlungen Omans. Die vorislamische Zeit am Beispiel von Izki, Nizwa und dem Jebel Akhdar. Dissertation, Munich, 2007. URL http://edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de/7548/1/Schreiber_Juergen.pdf
• Paul Yule, Die Gräberfelder in Samad al-Shan (Sultanat Oman): Materialien zu einer Kulturgeschichte (Rahden 2001), {{ISBN|3-89646-634-8}}.[https://web.archive.org/web/20070928191921/http://vml-verlag.de/e/detail.php?ISBN=3-89646-634-8]
• Paul Yule, Cross-roads – Early and Late Iron Age South-eastern Arabia, Abhandlungen Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft, vol. 30, Wiesbaden 2014, {{ISBN|978-3-447-10127-1}}
• Paul Yule, Valourising the Samad Late Iron Age, Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 27/1, 2016, 31‒71, {{ISSN|0905-7196}}.

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• http://heidicon.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/pool/oman

Category:Archaeological sites in Oman