Seminar for Arabian Studies

2004 Seminar Programme

The 2004 Seminar for Arabian Studies was held from Thursday 22 July - Saturday 24 July, 2004 , at the British Museum , London, U.K.

This event was supported by the MBI Foundation . Visit their website at: www.mbifoundation.com and read details about their sponsorship at www.mbifoundation.com/projects/seminar.html



All lectures were held in the Stevenson Auditorium in the Clore Centre within the British Museum.

The following poster presentation was displayed outside the Stevenson Auditorium during the three days of the seminar:

Dr Donatella USAI (Joint Hadd Project, Italy), Chisels, wedges? The lithic industry of Ras al-Hamra 5 (Muscat, Oman) .

For details of the lecture programme follow one of these links:

Thursday 22 July
Friday 23 July
Saturday 24 July

THURSDAY 22 JULY 2004

9.10 Welcome: Dr Derek KENNET

Archaeology & environment in ancient South Arabia
Chair: Dr St John SIMPSON

9:20 Eivind Heldaas SELAND (University of Bergen, Norway), Ancient South Arabia: trade and strategies of state control as seen in the Periplus Maris Erythraei

9.45 Dr Iris GERLACH (DAI, Sanaa, Republic of Yemen), New archaeological and architectural research on the Sabaean city and oasis of Sirwah

10.10 Dr Holger HITGEN (DAI, Sanaa, Republic of Yemen), The ancient cultural landscape of the Wadi Jufaynah in the oasis of Marib

10.35 COFFEE

Chair: T.J. WILKINSON

11.00 - free slot

11.25 Professor Alessandra AVANZINI (University of Pisa, Italy) & Professor Dr Alexander V. SEDOV (Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow, Russia), The stratigraphy of Sumhuram: new evidence

11.50 Krista LEWIS (University of Chicago, USA), A chronological re-assessment of the Iron Age and Himyarite periods in the highlands of Yemen

12.15 Geraldine CHIMIRRI-RUSSELL (Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, Canada) & Professor William D. GLANZMAN (University of Calgary, Canada), The whole is greater than the sum of its parts: a new examination of some South Arabian coinage

12:40 Professor Dr. Yusuf Mohammed ABDULLAH (General Authority of Antiquities Museums and Manuscripts, Republic of Yemen), Archaeological expedition of the AFSM to Marib

13.05 LUNCH

Chair: Dr Mark BEECH

14.00 Lamya KHALIDI (University of Cambridge, UK), Prehistoric and early historic settlement patterns on the Tihamah coastal plain (Yemen): preliminary findings of the Tihamah coastal survey, 2003

14.25 Carl S. PHILLIPS (CNRS UMR 7041, France), The BAMY 2004 survey programme

14.50 Dr Joy McCORRISTON (Ohio State University, USA), Foraging economies and population in the middle Holocene highlands of southern Yemen

15.15 Professor William D. GLANZMAN (University of Calgary, Canada), Ancient South Arabian camel caravans: a re-assessment of the evidence, and the road ahead

15.40 TEA

The written word
Chair: M.C.A. MACDONALD

16.10 Dr Peter STEIN (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena, Germany), Once again: the division of the month in ancient South Arabia

16.35 Dr Serguei FRANTSOUZOFF (Institute of Oriental Studies, St Petersburg, Russia), A Minaic inscription on the pedestal of an ibex statue in The British Museum

17.00 Dr Abdulkareem A. ALGHAMDI (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia), Gerrha and the Classical sources

17.25 Laïla NEHMÉ (CNRS, France), Towards an understanding of the urban space of Hegra/Mada'in Salih through epigraphic evidence

17.50 Mahdi ABDELAZIZ (Queen Rania Institute of Tourism and Heritage, Hashemite University, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan), The Nabataean written papyri from Nahal Hever and evidence for the Nabataean legal system

18.15 Dr Sultan A. MA'ANI (Queen Rania Institute of Tourism and Heritage, Hashemite University, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan), Results of the South-Eastern Jafr Epigraphical Survey (Jordan)

FRIDAY 23 JULY 2004

Prehistory in the Gulf & Southeast Arabia
Chair: Dr Rob CARTER

9.00 Jeffrey ROSE (Southern Methodist University, USA), Report on the 2004 Archaeological Activities At Qarat Kibrit, Central Oman

9:25 Dr Heiko KALLWEIT (Freiburg, Germany), Dr Mark BEECH (ADIAS, Abu Dhabi, UAE) & Dr Walid AL-TIKRITI (Department of Antiquities & Tourism, Al Ain), Kharimat Khor al-Manahil: new neolithic sites in the south-eastern desert of the United Arab Emirates

9.50 Dr Mark BEECH (ADIAS, Abu Dhabi, UAE), R. CUTTLER and D. MOSCROP (University of Birmingham, UK), Dr Heiko KALLWEIT (Freiburg, Germany) & John MARTIN (Carlisle, UK), New evidence for the Neolithic settlement of Marawah island (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates)

10.15 Juergen SCHREIBER (DAI, Berlin, Germany), Archaeological survey at Ibra in the Sharqiyah (Sultanate of Oman)

10.40 COFFEE

From Bronze to Iron in the Gulf
Chair: Carl S. PHILLIPS

11.05 Dr Flemming HØJLUND (Moesgaard Museum, Denmark), New excavations at the Barbar temple, Bahrain

11.30 Dr Sophie MÉRY (Maison de l'Archéologie et de l'Ethnologie, Nanterre, France), Kathleen McSWEENEY (Edinburgh, UK) & Dr Walid Yasin AL-TIKRITI (Department of Antiquities & Tourism, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates), The 2004 season at Hili Tomb N

11.55 Professor Peter MAGEE (Bryn Mawr College, USA), Investigations of the architecture and economic structure of the late prehistoric desert settlement of Muweilah (Sharjah, United Arab Emirates)

12.20 Professor Joaquin María CÓRDOBA, Professor Dr Manuel Pozo RODRlGUEZ, Dr Carmen del CERRO & Dr Montserrat MAÑÉ (Universidad Autónoma di Madrid, Spain), The so-called falaj from area AM2, Thuqeibah (Sharjah, United Arab Emirates): archaeology and questions arising from the 2004 season

12.45 LUNCH

From Iron to Islam in south-east Arabia
Chair: Prof Peter MAGEE

13.40 Dr Ali Tigani ELMAHI & Nasser AL-JAHWARI (Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman), Graves at Mahelya in Wadi Andam (Sultanate of Oman): a view of a late Iron Age death culture

14.05 Dr Paul YULE (University of Heidelberg, Germany), The Samad Culture - Echoes

14.30 Diane BARKER (Sydney, Australia) & Salah Ali HASSAN (Fujairah Museum, United Arab Emirates), Aspects of east-coast Hellenism and beyond: late pre-Islamic ceramics from Dibba 76 and Dibba Moraba'a (Fujairah, United Arab Emirates)

14.55 Professor Dr Moawiyah M. IBRAHIM & Badr ALAWI (Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman), Investigations at Wadi Bani Kharous (Sultanate of Oman)

15.20 TEA

Early Islam in history & archaeology
Chair: Dr Derek KENNET

15.50 Professor F. DE BLOIS (Cambridge, UK), Islam in its Arabian context

16.15 Dr Tim INSOLL (University of Manchester, UK), Conceptualising Islamic heresy and identity: an archaeological view from Bahrain

16.40 Dr Axelle ROUGEULLE (CNRS, France), The Sharma horizon: sgraffiato wares and other glazed ceramics of the Indian Ocean trade, c. 980-1150

17.05 Dr Claire HARDY-GUILBERT (CNRS, France), Archaeological research at al-Shihr, the Islamic port of Hadhramawt (Yemen): results of the 1996-2002 seasons

17.30 Professor Dr Saad A. AL-RSHID (Deputy Minister of Antiquities and Museums, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia), The Development of Archaeology in Saudi Arabia

18.00 Reception in Gallery 89: The Assyrian Basement

SATURDAY 24 JULY 2004

Exploring Islamic architecture
Chair: Prof Alastair NORTHEDGE

9.00 Dr Khaled M. AZAB (Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt), Rulers' headquarters

9.25 Fathia M. EL-MENGHAWI (University of Liverpool, UK), The origin of sacredness and femininity in the Muslim dwelling

9.50 Dr Magda SIBLEY (University of Liverpool, UK), The Islamic baths of Damascus and their survival into the 21st century

10.15 Dr Soumyen BANDYOPADHYAY (University of Liverpool, UK), Harat al-'Aqr (Nizwa): a key settlement in central Oman

10:40 Dr. Mashary Al-Naim (King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia) Using Traditional Manuscript to Describe Traditional Architecture: Case of Hofuf, Saudi Arabia

11.05 COFFEE

History of Oman
Chair: Dr Venetia PORTER

11.35 Dr Abdulrahman AL-SALIMI (Biddyah, Sultanate of Oman), The history of the Makramid period in Oman

12.00 Professor Valeria PIACENTINI FIORANI (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy), Suhar and the Buhid and Seljuk overseas military expeditions

12.25 LUNCH

Philology & ethnography
Chair: Dr Robert HOYLAND

13.40 Dr Hilal Said AL-HAJRI (Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman), Earliest images of Oman in British travel writing

14.05 Yosef TOBI (University of Haifa, Israel), An unknown study by Joseph Halévy on his travels to Yemen

14.30 Professor Manfred KROPP (Orient Institut der DMG, Beirut, Lebanon), An epigraphist's digression: free readings into the Rasm of the Qur'an

14.55 Dr Ingrid HEHMEYER (Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada), Timing water allocation without clocks

15.20 Professor Dr Vitaly NAUMKIN (Russian Centre for Strategic Research & International Studies, Moscow, Russia) & Prof Dr Victor PORKHOMOVSKY (Institute of Linguistics, Moscow, Russia), The concept of man in traditional Socotran culture

15.45 Professor Dr Mikhail RODIONOV (Museum of Anthropology & Ethnography, St Petersburg, Russia), 'Satanic matters': social conflict in Maduda (Hadhramawt): 1357 / 1938

16.10 Professor Dr Norbert NEBES (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany), A Nabataean-Sabaic bilingual inscription from Sirwah (Yemen)

17.30 Closing remarks

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