09-25-2008, 12:02 PM
Hi guys.
I found this interesting reference to just how old the lateena may be and dates it back to 1300-300 BC.
Some indication of how such foreign contacts were effected is given by another pendant from Tell Abraq which shows the only Iron Age depiction of a boat in the Oman peninsula (Potts 1991a: Figs. 142-143). In this case the boat appears to be a square-sterned vessel with a sharp bow and triangular sails (Potts 1995b: p 564). The sail is obviously similar to the Arab lateen sail, otherwise unattested in the region until the Sasanian period and absent in the Mediterranean until c. 900 AD. The Tell Abraq pendant is thus the earliest depiction of a lateen sail yet discovered.
p. 49-50, Ibrahim Abed and Peter Hellyer, United Arab Emirates
Source: http://books.google.com.au/books?id=QcM ... t#PPA50,M1
Picture on page 82: http://www.google.com.au/books?id=sHPro ... g#PPA82,M1
I found this interesting reference to just how old the lateena may be and dates it back to 1300-300 BC.
Some indication of how such foreign contacts were effected is given by another pendant from Tell Abraq which shows the only Iron Age depiction of a boat in the Oman peninsula (Potts 1991a: Figs. 142-143). In this case the boat appears to be a square-sterned vessel with a sharp bow and triangular sails (Potts 1995b: p 564). The sail is obviously similar to the Arab lateen sail, otherwise unattested in the region until the Sasanian period and absent in the Mediterranean until c. 900 AD. The Tell Abraq pendant is thus the earliest depiction of a lateen sail yet discovered.
p. 49-50, Ibrahim Abed and Peter Hellyer, United Arab Emirates
Source: http://books.google.com.au/books?id=QcM ... t#PPA50,M1
Picture on page 82: http://www.google.com.au/books?id=sHPro ... g#PPA82,M1
