The Dilmun burial complex at Sar :

Mughal, Mohammad Rafique, 1936-

The Dilmun burial complex at Sar : the 1980-82 excavations in Bahrain / M. Rafique Mughal. - [Manama] : State of Bahrain, Ministry of Information, Directorate of Archaeology & Museums, 1983. - xvi, 540 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

PART I. 1. Introduction - 2. Previous Work - 3. Recent Excavations – PART II. ANALYSES OF COMPLETELY EXCAVATED BURIALS : 1. The Burial Ground - 2. Mode of Construction - 3. Orientation of Graves - 4. The Capstones - 5. Shape and Size of Graves - 6. Alcoves - 7. Stratigraphy of the Graves - 8. Skeletal Remains - 9. Funerary Materials - 10. The Ringwalls -- PART III. DESCRIPTION OF PARTIALLY EXCAVATED BURIALS -- PART IV. THE ANTIQUITIES : 1. Pottery - 2. Stamp Seals - 3. Steatite Vessels - 4. Objects of Copper/Bronze - 5. Beads - 6. Objects of Shell - 7. Bittumen-lined Baskets -- PART V. Appendices : A. Catalogue of Antiquities and Selected Pottery - B. Description of Illustrated Materials - C. Basic Data on Completely Excavated Burials - D. The Grave Numbers of various Squares and their Final Burial Numbers - E. The Burial Numbers with Reference to Structural Features of Squares - F. Relative Heights of Graves with and without Capstones, Bed Rock Surface and top level of Ringwalls.


Tombs--Bahrain.


Sār Site (Bahrain)

DS247.B23 / M83 1983

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