Some Imported Pottery at Khor Rori (Dhofar)

Dibba: an ancient port on the Gulf of Oman in the early Roman era

“…Between the first century BCE and second century AD the port at Dibba was probably equivalent in significance to the ports of Qana (Sedov 1992) and Khor Rori (Comfort 1960) on the South Arabian coast, and the Roman ports of Qaseir al-Qadim and Benerike on the Red Sea (Peacock & Blue 2006). These, together with Indian ports such as Barbarikon, Barygaza, Kamrej and Pattanam, were among those actively involved in an international maritime commercial network (Gupta 2007;Tomber, Cartwright & Gupta 2011;Shajan, Tobler & Cherian 2004;Shajan, Selvakumar & Tomber 2005;Cherian, Selvakumar & Shajan 2009;Abraham 2009) which traded in a wide range of commodities from Rome, Egypt, India, Iran and Mesopotamia in exchange for frankincense, the main commodity from southern Arabia (Periplus 32, Casson 1989) and probably pearls from the region of Dibba.…”