Amlah or ʿAmlāʾ () is a location in al-Dhāhirah province (41 km ESE of ʿIbrī), Sultanate of Oman. The area around Amlah contains numerous archaeological sites which came to light during surveys in the mid 1970s.*B. de Cardi, C. Collier, D.B. Doe, Excavations and Survey in Oman, Journal of Oman Studies 2, 1976, 101-187, Those that are available to the public date from the Bronze Age Wadi Suq period to the late pre-Islamic period. 26 excavated graves provide evidence for a cemetery at al-Fuwaydah.P. Yule, ʿAmlā/al-Zāhirah - Späteisenzeitliche Gräberfelder, Vorläufiger Bericht der Ausgrabungen 1997, in: P. Yule (ed.), Studies in the Archaeology of the Sultanate of Oman, Orient-Archäologie 2 (Rahdan 1999) 119-186, The graves and grave goods are related most closely to those of the United Arab Emirates, Preislamique Récente, i.e. PIR, and not the Samad Late Iron Age.P. Yule, Cross-roads – Early and Late Iron Age South-eastern Arabia, Abhandlungen Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft, vol. 30, Wiesbaden 2014,62‒9 Among the most striking Late Iron Age finds are bronze phiales inscribed on the inside.P. Yule, A Bronze Bowl from the Back Country of the Sultanate of Oman, in: (eds. J.-W. Mayer et al.) Beiträge zur vorderasiatischen Archäologie, Winfried Orthmann Gewidmet (Frankfurt Main 2001) 494-509, ;P. Yule‒C. Pariselle, Silver philae said to be from al-Juba (al-Wusta Governorate]‒an archaeological puzzle, Arab. Arch. and Epigraphy 27, 2016, 163‒4 .
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