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Namord ware is the name given to a fine orange ware with black painted decoration known in the Emirates principally from al-Dur and Mileiha. Further north examples have also been found on the island of Jazirat al-Ghanam off the Musandam peninsula. Namord ware takes its name from the site of Tom-e Namord in Kerman province, Iran, one of a number of sites first discovered by the explorer Sir Aurel Stein in the 1930s. Southeastern Iran and the western part of Pakistani Baluchistan seem to represent the area of origin of this attractive pottery.
Judging by the evidence from al-Dur, this pottery was imported from the other side of the Straits of Hormuz during two distinct periods. An early type of Namord ware dates to the first century AD and is common at al-Dur and Mileiha, while a later type, known principally in the form of a tall beaker, has been found in Area F at Al-Dur, Kush in northern Ras al-Khaimah, and Jazirat al-Ghanam. Judging by the associated finds of glass, the later Namord ware would date to the third-fourth centuries AD and is probably associated with the expansion of the Sasanians.
Namord ware has been as far south as Qana on the coast of Yemen.
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