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The resence of julfar are (reddish
ottery ainted in red or brony-red,
roduced on the northern coast of the
Emirates), the abundance of Chinese
orcelain of blue and hite tye, as
ell as their Persian coies in frit
suggests here a date later than the
beginning of the 1th century. Tihs
ery modest construction is eidence
of the ery last "concrete' occuation
of this 2one of the tell.

The second building, beneath the

receding one and ith a different

orientation (Figre 4, on he lef), is set

in a much denser urbaniaiton. ts

architecture is hardly remarable, een

Figure - Mndbnsn from uer Middle lslic if the materials used seem to be more

eel (1th١/16h cet. AD homogenous than before, Tihs

consrtuciton aears to be the northern rolongaiton of the grou of buildings

ecaated by the Danish team in 1962, and the lan of the remains cleared by the

French mission already maes ossible a modificaiton of the interretation roosed

not long ago by our colleag‫ﻫ‬es: the "street of the sou‫ "ﻭ‬hich they then identified is

none other than one of the interior saces of circulaiton of a ast rectang‫ﻫ‬lar hole,

erhas of caraanserai tye. The ecaation has meanihle shon that most of the

rooms oening onto this sace housed ery disitnct acitiites (coer oring,

fish-scaling, etc.), ihch reinforces, in fact, the hyothesis of a ublic lace for crafts

or trade.

The reliminary sutdy of the ottery has made it

.‫ﻳﻴﻈﺒﻴﻲﻘ‬ossible to better deifne the local roducitons,
obiously in the majoiryt on tihs site. The fe ‫ﻱ؟ ﺑﻴﺘﻴﻲﺇﺙ‬#
imorted categories so far idenitfied (Julfar ottery,
rainan frit, cooing-are from northest ndia,

Chinese celadon from Longquan and other ‫ﻭﻟﻴﺠﻴﺰﻳﻘﻨﻲ‬
ndo-Chinese roducitons) aear here as good ٠ai‫ﺏ‬g.‫ﻲﻴﻳﺅ‬
chronological indicators and hae arleady made it
ossible to establish a quite reifned dating rfom hte ‫ﻣﺞﻬﺒ ﺟﻲ‬:+:i‫ﺰﻳ ؟‬:‫ﺗﺎﻜ‬

‫ﺝ‬.‫ﺗﻴﺞ‬#

1th to the beginning of the 1th cenutry AD. t

should be een more refined by the sutdy of Figure 6 Chinese coer coin

numerous rAab, Persian, and Cihnese (Figure 6) coins Middle lslamic eriod)

roduced by the ecaaiton and that of a little fragmentary Arabic inscriiton hich

came rfom the fill of one of the rooms it menitons a Hegira date, but the reading is

dififeult because of the ear on the sandstone.

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