Seminar for Arabian Studies
2002 Seminar Programme
The 2002 Seminar for Arabian Studies was held from July 18-20, 2002, at the
British Museum
, London, U.K. This coincided with the
Queen of Sheba - Treasures from Ancient Yemen
exhibition (9 June - 13 October 2002)
Lectures were held in the BP Lecture theatre,
Clore Education Centre
, the British Museum
Thursday, July 18
Friday, July 19
Saturday, July 20
Thursday, July 18, 2002
ARCHAEOLOGY IN OMAN AND THE GULF
8.15 - Registration
9.00 - Opening Remarks by Venetia Porter
9.10 - Peter Magee (Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College, USA): Intensification and resource diversity in late prehistoric southeastern Arabia
9.35 - Vincent Charpentier and Philippe Marquis (CNRS UMR 7041, Paris, France and Commission du vieux, Paris, France): Two campaigns on the Neolithic site of Gorbat al-Mahar, Suwayh, Sultanate of Oman
10.00 - Jutta Haeser (DAI): Results of the survey campaigns in the Wadi Bani Awf and in the Al-Hamra Region, Oman
10.25 - COFFEE
11.00 - Serge Cleuziou, R é my Crassard and Cecile Monchablon (CNRS, UMR, Nanterre, & INRAP (Pantin), France) : Excavations at Ra's al-Jinz RJ-1 (Sultanate of Oman): Early Bronze Age chronology without tells
11.25 - Tom Vosmer (Western Australia Maritime Museum, Australia): La nave di Magan: the construction of the ship.
11.50 - Lynne Newton (University of Minnesota, USA): A Landscape of Trade, Colonization and Resistance: Iron Age Dhofar
12.15 - Anne Benoist and Jérémie Schiettecatte (CNRS, Lyon, & University of Paris I, France) : Stratigraphy and distribution of artefacts in the fort CW at Mleiha (Emirate of Sharjah)
12.35 - LUNCH
Chair: Tony Wilkinson
14.00 -
Ali Tigani ElMahi and Moawiyah Ibrahim
(Department of Archaeology, Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman): Two seasons of investigations at Manal site in Wadi Samayil, Sultanate of Oman.
14.25 - Derek Kennet (Department of Archaeology, University of Durham, UK): The archaeology of the mountain villages of the Musandam
14.50 - Caesar Farah (Department of History, University of Minnesota, USA): Anglo-Ottoman confrontation in the Persian Gulf
15.15 - TEA
COMPARATIVE WATER SYSTEMS
15.45 -
Miquel Barcelo
(Departament de Ciences de L'Antiguitat i de l'Edat Mitjana, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain):
Peasants of Zafar. The architecture of hydraulic systems. A report of the 1999 and 2000 campaigns
.
16.10 -
Helena Kirchner Granell
(Departament de Ciències de l'Antiguitat i de l'Edat Mitjana, Facultat de Lletres, edifici B. Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain): Ma'gil: A type of hydraulic system in Yemen and in Al-Andalus?
16.35 -
Walid Yasin al-Tikriti
(Al Ain Museum, United Arab Emirates): An Early Islamic
falaj
from Al-Ain (UAE)
Friday, July 19, 2002
LIFE AND AFTERLIFE IN THE YEMENI LANDSCAPE
Chair: St. John Simpson
9.30 -
Tony J. Wilkinson
(The Oriental Institute, Chicago, USA) : The organization of the landscape of highland Yemen in the Bronze and Iron Ages
9.55 -
Frank Braemer, Jean-Francois Breton, Serge Cleuziou and Tara Steimer
(CNRS, Paris, France): Dolmen-like structures, some unusual funerary monuments in Yemen.
10.20 -
Carl Phillips
(CNRS UMR 7041, Paris, France): Arabian Stonehenge
10.45 - COFFEE
11.20 -
William Glanzman
(Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary, Canada): A re-examination of the building campaign of Yada''il Dar_h bin Sumhu'alay,
mukarrib
of Saba,' in light of recent archaeology
11.45 -
Abdu O. Ghaleb
(University of Sana'a, Republic of Yemen): The results of the April-May 2001 field season of excavations by The American Foundation for the Study of Man at Mahram Bilqis in Marib
12.10 -
Iris Gerlach
(DAI, Sanaa, Republic of Yemen): The Sabaean Cult centre Sirwah: The latest archaeological and architecturally historic research by the German Archaeological Institute on the temple hill and in the oasis
12.35 -
Jean-Francois Breton
(University of Paris, France): The development of the city of Shabwa (Hadramawt)
13.00 - LUNCH
Chair: William Glanzman
14.30 -
Joseph Daniels
: Landscape graffiti in the Dhamar Plains and its relation to mountaintop religious practice
14.55 -
Krista Lewis
(Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA): Landscapes of Himyar in Ancient Highland Yemen
15.20 -
Holger Hitgen
(DAI, Sanaa, Republic of Yemen): Living and dying on the Jabal al'Awd - Types of buildings and burial rites of an early Himyarite mountain settlement in the Yemen
15.45 -
Jan Retso
(Goteborg, Sweden): When did Yemen become Arabia Felix?
16.15 - TEA
ETHNOGRAPHY IN YEMEN
16.45 -
Vitaly Naumkin and Victor Porkhomovsky
: Oral poetry in Socotran socio-cultural context
17.10 -
Miranda Morris
- Concepts of good and poor health in the Soqotra Archipelago: the promotion of the former and treatment of the latter
17.35 -
Hanne Schönig
(Martin-Luther-Universitat, Halle, Wittenburg, Germany): Reflections on the u
se of animal drugs in Yemen
18.00 -
Ester Muchawsky-Schnapper
(Department of Ethnography, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel): Children's attire in early twentieth century Sana'a as a socio-cultural paradigm
18.45 - RECEPTION IN THE JOHN ADDIS ISLAMIC GALLERY (BRITISH MUSEUM)
Saturday, July 20, 2002
ANCIENT NORTH ARABIAN AND ARABIC
Chair: Michael Macdonald
9.00 -
Sultan Maani
(Queen Rania's Institute of Tourism and Heritage, Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan): New Safaitic Inscriptions from Jordan
9.25 - Francois de Blois (Universitaet Hamburg, Asien-Afrika-Institut, Hamburg, Germany: Quran IX: 37 and CIH 547
9.50 -
Janet C.E. Watson
(University of Durham, UK): A 'little' look at language change in San'ani Arabic: What came before shwayyih?
10.15 - COFFEE
SOUTH ARABIAN EPIGRAPHY
10.45 -
Serguei A. Frantsouzoff
(Institute of Oriental Studies, St. Petersburg, Russia): The Hadramitic funerary inscription from the grotto of ar-Rukba (wadi al-Ghabr, Inland Hadramawt) and burial ceremonies in ancient Hadramawt
11.10 -
Mohammed Maraqten
(University of Marburg, Germany): Some notes on Sabaic epistolography
11.35 -
Peter Stein
(Jena, Germany): The inscribed wooden sticks of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich
12.00 -
Walter Müller
(
Institut für Orientalistik und Sprachwissenschaft der Philipps-Universität, Marburg, Germany):
A statuette in bronze with a Sabaic penitential inscription
12.25 -
Alexander V. Sedov
(Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia): The beginning of coin circulation in south Arabia
12.50 - LUNCH
YEMEN IN THE ISLAMIC PERIOD
Chair: Valeria Piacentini
14.20 -
Selma al-Radi and Lamia Khalidi
(Yemen): Documentation of a section of carved stucco from the Amiriya Madrasa in Rada, Yemen
14.45 -
Soumyen Bandyophadyay and Magda Sibley
(School of Architecture and Building Engineering, University of Liverpool, UK): Spatial organisation of mosques in central Oman: Its ancient Hadramawtic and Yemeni origin and the notions of purity
15.10 -
Paolo Costa
(University of Bologna, Italy): Wayside cisterns for the supply of free drinking water: A traditional charity common in the Yemen and throughout Arabia
15.35 -
Axelle Rougeulle
(CNRS, France): Sharma, an 11th century emporium of the Oriental Trade on the South Arabian coast
16.00 - TEA
16.30 -
Noha Sadek
(France): A tale of two capitals: Taizz and Zabid during the Rasulid Period
16.55 -
Samer F. Traboulsi
(Princeton University, USA): Setting sail for India: The relocation of the Ismaili da'wa from Yemen
17.20 -
Aviva Klein-Franke
(Martin-Buber Institute for Jewish Studies, University of Cologne, Germany): Ancient gravestones and Jewish cemeteries in Aden
18.30 - CONCERT OF YEMENI MUSIC
We are grateful to the following for their support of the Seminar this year: MBI Foundation and the Seven Pillars of Wisdom Trust. With special thanks to those who have supported the concert: The British Museum Friends , the British Yemeni Society and Yemenia .
The Seminar is part of the public programme of events centred around the exhibition ' Queen of Sheba - Treasures from Ancient Yemen ' (9th June - 13 October 2002) which has been sponsored by Barclays .
The next Seminar for Arabian Studies will be at The British Museum from Thursday July 17th - Saturday July 19th, 2003.
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