Wadi Suq and Iron Age period ceramics from Sharm, Fujairah (U.A.E.)

Abstract

The Wadi Suq period and Iron Age ceramics from Sharm are examined in terms of morphological, compositional and decorative features. The assemblage is typical of the second‐ and first‐millennium BC ceramics of southeastern Arabia. The more unusual Iron Age ‘imitation soft stone’ ceramics are amply represented and the Sharm assemblage considerably expands upon this corpus of ceramics which has hitherto been less than abundant in the region. Comparisons with other second‐ and first‐millennium sites suggest the tombs were largely occupied in the late Wadi Suq period, a pattern of occupation which again peaked in the Iron Age II period.