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This paper draws attention to thirty unpublished Iron Age softstone vessels from Qarn Bint Sa'ud held in the Al Ain Museum. They are compared with softstone vessels from other Iron Age sites in the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Oman and Mesopotamia, in order to study distribution patterns and exchange. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sixty-two softstone vessels found at the coastal site of ed-Dur, Umm al-Qaiwain (U.A.E.), less than 1% of the total amount of artefacts registered at the site, are examined for evidence of (inter)regional exchange. Emphasis is laid on the vessels from the PIR C phase. In recent research much attention has been paid to the spatial distribution and trade of softstone vessels of earlier times. An attempt will be made to do the same for the dark grey softstone vessels dating ca . 300 BC–300 AD. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Rak 5115 is a unique example of a tri-compartmentalised soft-stone vessel from the Oman Peninsula. This vessel was reconstructed, having been found in a fragmentary from in the National Museum of Ras al-Khaimah. It appears that the vessel comes from the lomb of Wa'ab 4 in the Wadi al-Qawr. Rak 5115 is datable on stylistic grounds to the earlier part of the Iron Age. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]