eprintid: 130
rev_number: 3
eprint_status: archive
userid: 2
dir: disk0/00/00/01/30
datestamp: 2008-09-17 12:46:16
lastmod: 2023-02-03 14:29:35
status_changed: 2009-06-11 14:16:13
type: article
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Yule, Paul
creators_name: Guba, Ingeborg
title: Did the Ancient Mesopotamian Royal Stone Originate in Oman?
ispublished: pub
subjects: ddc-470
divisions: i-209
keywords: diorite , gabbro , Magan  , Lower Sea , Manistusu
cterms_swd: Mesopotamien
cterms_swd: Magan
cterms_swd: Diorit
cterms_swd: Gabbro
abstract: Royal statuary of the late third and early second millennia BC is often sculpted from "diorite". But closer examination of the stone reveals that more correctly both diorite and gabbro are manifest. Royal records indicate a source for the "dark stone" of the statues in Magan/Makkan. This is locatable in south-east Arabia, especially the present-day Sultanate of Oman but also in south-west Iran (Potts 1986: 271-285). Samples of "diorite" statues are compared with petrological samples from the Sultanate. The stone of the royal statues need not be exclusively from here since sources closer to Sumer and Akkad exist in Iraq and Iran, although some correspondences are clear between the stone of certain statues and the samples available in the Sultanate.
abstract_translated_lang: eng
date: 2001
date_type: published
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/propylaeumdok.00000130
schriftenreihe_cluster_id: sr-5
schriftenreihe_order: 004
ppn_swb: 1355929016
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-propylaeumdok-1304
language: eng
bibsort: YULEPAULDIDTHEANCI2001
full_text_status: public
publication: Adumatu
volume: 4
pagerange: 41-52
themen: T939
oa_type: green
citation:   Yule, Paul ; Guba, Ingeborg  (2001) Did the Ancient Mesopotamian Royal Stone Originate in Oman?   In:  Adumatu, 4 (2001),   pp. 41-52      
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeumdok/130/1/Yule_diorite2001.pdf