Lizq is an archaeological site in Ash Sharqiyah , Oman. Located on a mountain lying in a plain, 1000 m south-east of the south-eastern edge of the Lizq palm garden, the fort dates to the Lizq-Rumaylah / Early Iron Age .
5-533: 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
10-479: A secondary school teacher. Later on, he found a passion on archaeology and finished his doctorate in 1970 at Saarland University over "Römische Quellheiligtum von Hochscheid im Hunsrück". He started his archaeological career as professor Rolf Hachmann 's assistant at the same university. In April 1973 he started his work at the German Mining Museum as a mining archaeologist, where he was active until
15-667: 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. This article relating to archaeology in the Near East is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Gerd Weisgerber Gerd Weisgerber (January 24, 1938 in Saarwellingen – June 22, 2010 in Recklinghausen )
20-433: 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 m wide and has a surface of more than 20.000 m2 in surface area. This makes it the largest Early Iron Age fort in central Oman. The location of
25-439: Was an eminent German professor of mining archaeology. He was one of the first mining archaeologists of the world, who set standards in this scientific discipline. As a scientist from the German Mining Museum , he focused his research mainly on Western Asia, especially on Oman , Jordan , Palestine , and Iran . From 1957 to 1959, Gerd Weisgerber studied at the teacher training college of Saarbrücken and began his career as
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