Lizq

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Lizq
لزق (Arabic)
Plan of the Early Iron Age fort Lizq L1
Location within Oman
22°41′52.5″N 58°10′58.75″E / 22.697917°N 58.1829861°E / 22.697917; 58.1829861
Type	Fortification
Periods	Iron Age
Satellite of	Lizq
Location	Lizq, Ash Sharqiyah North Governorate, Oman
Region	Eastern Arabia
History
Built	Early Iron Age
Site notes
Material	Stone
Length	110 m (360 ft)
Width	170 m (560 ft)
Area	2 ha (4.9 acres)
Excavation dates	1981
Archaeologists	Stephan Kroll
Discovered	1979
Condition	Ruined

Lizq is an archaeological site in Ash Sharqiyah, Oman. Located on a mountain lying in a plain, 1,000 metres (1,100 yd) south-east of the south-eastern edge of the Lizq palm garden, the fort dates to the Lizq-Rumaylah/Early Iron Age.

Description

The site was discovered in 1979 during the archaeological exploration of Gerd Weisgerber of the German Mining Museum (Deutsches Bergbau-Museum) in Bochum. Shaikh Hamdan al-Harthy of Samad led Weisgerber to the site. In 1981 a single season long German archaeological team mapped and conducted minimal rescue excavation. They did an ad hoc restoration of the stairs which lead up the northern face of the mountain. Since there are several sites near Lizq town, the fort is disambiguated as 'L1'.

The Lizq fort owes its existence to the reliable occurrence of water at a natural causeway at the southern side of the central mountains. The main fort on the western mountain peak is some 175 metres (575 ft) wide and has a surface of more than 20,000 square metres (5 acres) in surface area. This makes it the largest Early Iron Age fort in central Oman. The location of the Iron Age village associated with the fort remains unknown. No falaj was discovered.

Important is Kroll's comparison of the pottery with that of Iron Age Iran.

See also

• Archaeology of Oman

Further reading

References

External links

• heidICON - Die Heidelberger Objekt- und Multimediadatenbank

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