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Archeological material of the Ministry’s internet site
Khor Rori site ( Samahram):
This site is located 38 km to the east of Salalah plain. It
is fortified by tightly queued stones. Five stone slates
written in the southern Arabic alphabet and describing the
establishment of the city were found. These give a hint that
the city was built to stress the domination of the trade of
frankincense which was collected at the site and exported
abroad during the first BC century and
the first AD century. An ancient temple built in the centre
of the city’s northern side was also found. Three of its
walls, two slaughterhouses, a protruding scene of an ox at
one of the two slaughterhouses were found, which proved that
the god for whom the temple was constructed was the god of
moon as the ox represents the god of moon in the Humiariyah
religion. Traces of the ash of offerings which included
remains of fish, cattle and chicken bones and remains of
frankincense were also found.
The antiquities also included a small bronze statue of a
girl who was playing a flute and an uncompleted statute of
an Indian girl which was dated back to 2nd AD century.
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The statue of the Indian girl was a proof of the
existence of trade relations between India and
Arab Peninsula. Also found were 14 bronze coins,
a bronze bell named San ( the god of moon) and a
bronze stamp which carried to lines written in
ancient language used in Hadhrmout before the
establishing of the Saba Humairiyah kingdom |
Remains of an ancient
temple at Khor Rori |
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