Dear Steve

"Dar" can be a kind of house or mansion (see Dar Yacout at Marrakech,
Dar Aby etc...)

Regarding Mirbat, I recommend you this page of history:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mirbat

This harbour is @ 30km east of Salalah, on the southern coast.


Kind regards


Olivier


Le 12/06/2016 à 01:13, Steve Rosenthal a écrit :
> I have a hand written label for a shell from Oman, the unintelligible word in question precedes "Mirbat, South Oman" and may be a more specific locality?
> 
> the first letters appear to be  D-A-R_ followed by two letters that I cant decipher and/or which don't match up to anything I could find online something like D-A-R-C (?) R(?? ) though as I noted, those last two letters are hard to discern.   South Mirbat looks like a pretty small place, at least on a map. 
> 
> Thanks in advance 

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