Nestorian Crosses from Jabal Berri

Potts, D. T.

doi:10.1111/j.1600-0471.1994.tb00055.x

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“…4); Kharg Island, Iran (late eighth-ninth centuries) (Hardy-Guilbert & Rougeulle, 2003: pls 9, 10); and Jubail, eastern Saudi Arabia (undated, but suggested as about fifth-ninth centuries) (Langfeldt, 1994: 36, 57). Two smaller portable bronze crosses and a single mother-of-pearl cross have also been reported from the Jabal Barri region, 10 km south-south-west of Jubail (Potts, 1994). Seven of the 12 fragments of stucco (SAM19 Stucco 1-5) were identified within rubble which was rechecked for decoration or impression after it had been removed from Building 1 as part of the large-scale building clearance (Fig.…”

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“…4); Kharg Island, Iran (late eighth–ninth centuries) (Hardy‐Guilbert & Rougeulle, 2003: pls 9, 10); and Jubail, eastern Saudi Arabia (undated, but suggested as about fifth–ninth centuries) (Langfeldt, 1994: 36, 57). Two smaller portable bronze crosses and a single mother‐of‐pearl cross have also been reported from the Jabal Barri region, 10 km south‐south‐west of Jubail (Potts, 1994).…”

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Excavations at Samahij, Bahrain, and the implications for Christianity, Islamisation and settlement in Bahrain

Insoll

Carter

Almahari

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Arab Archaeol Epigr

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The episcopal seat of Meshmahig or Mašmahig is referred to in various historical sources, such as the synods of the Church of the East of 410 and 576. These sources have been extensively explored, and it is suggested that Mašmahig can be linked to the village of Samahij in north‐east Muharraq Island, Bahrain. However, archaeological evidence for a Christian presence in Samahij, or elsewhere in Bahrain, was lacking. Excavations completed within the village cemetery at Samahij uncovered part of a large building complex. Based on the architecture, associated material culture and chronology, it is suggested this building was occupied by a Christian community, perhaps as part of a monastery or even the episcopal palace itself. This was abandoned after Islamisation, seemingly in the eighth century. The results of the first season of excavations are described, and the implications for Christianity, Islamisation and settlement in Bahrain are considered.

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Excavations at Samahij, Bahrain, and the implications for Christianity, Islamisation and settlement in Bahrain

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Almahari

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“…Potts reports the discovery of a bronze cross and a mother‐of‐pearl one from Jabal Berri, 9 km south of Jubayl (Potts 1994). The bronze example closely resembles those of the Church of the East, known from al‐Qusur, Hira and Khargt.…”

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Christianity in the Gulf during the first centuries of Islam

Carter¹

2008

Arab Archaeol Epigr

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This article re‐examines the ceramics of SBY‐9, a church and monastery site on the island of Sir Bani Yas, Abu Dhabi emirate, U.A.E. It then explores other archaeological evidence for Christianity in the Arabian Gulf and compares it to the textual data, resulting in a reconsideration of the history and activities of the Church of the East. The pottery of SBY‐9 indicates that the monastery complex was occupied some time between the second half of the seventh century and the mid‐eighth century AD and not, as previously believed, the sixth–seventh centuries AD. Other excavated churches and monasteries in the Gulf region should also be redated to the eighth and ninth centuries AD (al‐Qusur, Kharg). These findings cast a new light on the history of Christianity in the Arabian Gulf after the Muslim conquest.

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“…The monastic institutions of the Persian Gulf are the best documented archaeologically in the late antique Iranian world, the finest physical examples of a coenobitic movement that originated in northern Mesopotamia and inspired imitators as far afield as the Tarim Basin. In addition to these two coenobitic institutions, archaeologists have uncovered churches at Failaka in Kuwait as well as Christian monuments at Thaj, Jabal Berri and other sites in eastern Arabia (Finster 1996: 303–313; Calvet 1998; Langfeldt 1994; Potts 1994). These sites do not necessarily imply the ongoing expansion of Christianity in the Persian Gulf region, but they do indicate the dedication of economic resources to the construction of ecclesiastical institutions, whether churches or monasteries.…”

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Monks, dinars and date palms: hagiographical production and the expansion of monastic institutions in the early Islamic Persian Gulf

Payne¹

2011

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy

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Der Weg in die Wüste war der radikalste dichterische Akt… Peter Sloterdijk, Weltfremdheit Recent archaeological studies have documented an expansion of monastic institutions in the Persian Gulf after the Islamic conquest, between the middle of the seventh and the end of the eighth centuries. Although the literary sources have often been invoked to support an earlier dating for the diffusion of coenobitic monasticism in the region, our principal source for the phenomenonthe History of Mar Yonan, hitherto misdated to the fourth centuryconfirms recent archaeologically informed interpretations. The narrative, moreover, provides an insight into the social and economic structures of monasticism in the seventh-and eighth-century Persian Gulf as well as the ideological conflicts that attended the emergence of those structures.

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Nestorian Crosses from Jabal Berri

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Excavations at Samahij, Bahrain, and the implications for Christianity, Islamisation and settlement in Bahrain

Excavations at Samahij, Bahrain, and the implications for Christianity, Islamisation and settlement in Bahrain

Christianity in the Gulf during the first centuries of Islam

Monks, dinars and date palms: hagiographical production and the expansion of monastic institutions in the early Islamic Persian Gulf

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