The Ancient Saar Project: London-Bahrain Archaeological Expedition
Robert Killick, 2007. (updated 2021) https://doi.org/10.5284/1042738. How to cite using this DOI
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- DOI:https://doi.org/10.5284/1042738
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Overview
This dataset comprises the electronic components of the Saar Excavation Archive. The non-digital records of the project have been deposited in the National Museum of Bahrain where they are available for consultation.
The Saar Database
The original site database migrated through several formats before ending up in Access 2000 (mdb). In this format, it consisted of linked sets of data (tables), with customised queries, views and reports. The main tables were devoted to the finds and to the contexts. Subsidiary tables held information on the photographic record, drawing numbers for objects, site supervisors' plans, architect's plans, and phase, block and site level designations.
The Saar Imagebank
The Saar digital archive comprises over 1100 scanned photographs of the archaeological remains and finds from Saar and more than 450 scanned drawings. The original digital images, available at different resolutions, are on CD-ROMs (Kodak Photo CD format) deposited in the National Museum of Bahrain. All the images have also been archived in the Saar Imagebank where they are linked to the database for easy search and retrieval. Archiving of the Imagebank was funded by the Gerald Averay Wainwright Fund.
Saar Geographical Information System1
The Saar Geographical Information System contains the digitised plans of all buildings and installations, together with the location of all finds plotted in situ.
Saar Reports
Three books have been published and are available for downloading in PDF format.
London-Bahrain Archaeological Expedition
Saar Excavation Report 1
The Dilmun Temple at Saar
edited Harriet Crawford, Robert Killick, and Jane Moon
ISBN 978-1-910169-03-2
(2nd Edition, Moonrise Press 2017)
London-Bahrain Archaeological Expedition
Saar Excavation Report 2
Early Dilmun Seals from Saar, fragments of art and administration
by Harriet Crawford
ISBN 0-9539561-0-5
(Archaeology International 2001)
London-Bahrain Archaeological Expedition
Saar Excavation Report 3
The Early Dilmun Settlement at Saar
edited by Robert Killick and Jane Moon
ISBN 0-9539561-1-3
(Archaeology International 2005)
1The Saar GIS will be available from ADS in due course
