One of the least known, yet extremely important, archaeological sites in Failaka Island, off Kuwait, is Sa’ida village. A joint Gulf mission started excavation in Sa’ida in 2001. The excavations on Hill 1 then exposed the first Friday mosque discovered on Failaka and in the State of Kuwait. The material data revealed that the village dates to the late Islamic period, specifically to the end of the seventeenth century until the beginning of the nineteenth century, when the village was abandoned due to the plague epidemic that swept the region. Since 2016, four fieldwork campaign indicated that the village was inhabited in the early Islamic era in the seventh–eighth centuries and continued until the beginning of the twentieth century, with a few but long gaps. The six campaigns revealed religious and domestic buildings and were sufficient to reassess the chronology of occupation and abandonment of Sa’ida. They provided a valuable insight into the organisation of the site and the lifestyle of the population, with large courtyard houses and small one-room buildings.

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法拉卡岛 Sa'ida 村的最新发掘结果

在科威特附近的法拉卡岛，最鲜为人知但极其重要的考古遗址之一是赛伊达村。海湾联合任务于 2001 年开始在赛伊达挖掘。1 号山的挖掘随后暴露了在法拉卡和科威特国发现的第一个星期五清真寺。实物资料显示，该村可追溯到伊斯兰时期晚期，特别是十七世纪末至十九世纪初，当时该村因席卷该地区的瘟疫流行而被遗弃。自2016年以来，四次实地考察表明该村在七八世纪早期的伊斯兰时代就有人居住，一直持续到二十世纪初，有一些但很长的差距。六次运动揭示了宗教和家庭建筑，足以重新评估塞伊达被占领和被遗弃的年代。他们提供了对场地组织和居民生活方式的宝贵见解，包括大型四合院和小型单室建筑。