Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies - Vol. 32 (2002)

CONTENTS

Resources land and sea

R. Carter, Ubaid-period boat remains from As-Sabiyah: excavations by the British Archaeological Expedition to Kuwait (pages 13-30)

A.T. ElMahi , The spiny-tailed lizard: a constituent of the occasional diet in the traditional inland societies in Oman (pages 31-46)

M. Morris , Plant names in Dhofar and the Soqotra Archipelago (pages 47-61)

M. Pozo Rodríguez & J.M. Córdoba Zoilo , Architecture, implements and geological constraints: a provenance study and archaeological investigation of the uses and materials of an Iron Age village (AM1-Thuqaybah, Emirate of Sharjah, UAE) (pages 63-74)

M. Tengberg , The importation of wood to the Arabian Gulf in antiquity. The evidence from charcoal analysis (pages 75-81)

Water systems and agriculture

I. Hehmeyer, E.J. Keall & D. Rahimi , Ghayl Ba Wazir: applied qanat technology in the fissured karst landscape of southern Yemen (pages 83-97)

B. Mershen , 'Let the water run back'. Archaeological and ethnohistorical observations from Wadi Fanja/Wadi al-Khod, Oman: the case of a failed 18th/19th century agro-economic enterprise (pages 99-116)

W.Y. Al-Tikriti , The south-east Arabian origin of the falaj system (pages 117-138)

Maritime trade and coastal sites

L. Blue , Myos Hormos/Quseir al-Qadim. A Roman and Islamic port on the Red Sea coast of Egypt - A maritime perspective (pages 139-150)

D. Kennet , The development of northern Ra's al-Khaimah and the 14th-century Hormuzi economic boom in the lower Gulf (pages 151-164)

V. Piacentini , The Arab expeditions overseas in the seventh century AD - working hypotheses on the dissolution of the Sasanian state apparatus along the eastern seaboard of the Arabian peninsula (pages 165-173)

Pre-Islamic Arabia

H. David , Soft-stone vessels from Umm an-Nar tombs at Hili (UAE): a comparison (pages 175-185)

W.D. Glanzman , Some notions of sacred space at the Mahram Bilqis in Marib (pages 187-201)

M. Kropp , Individual public confession and pious ex voto, or stereotypical and stylised trial document and stigmatizing tablet for the pillory? The expiation texts in Ancient South Arabian (pages 203-208)

M. Maraqten , Newly discovered Sabaic inscriptions from Mahram Bilqis, near Marib (pages 209-216)

S. Weninger , More Sabaic minuscule texts from Munich (pages 217-223)

Aspects of mediaeval and early modern Arabia

W. Dostal , The Austrian-Saudi Arabian collaborative project in the south-western region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. A preliminary report (pages 225-232)

B. Finster , The mosques of the Wusab province in Yemen (pages 233-245)

A. Regourd , Les manuscrits des bibliothèques privées de Zabid (Yémen): enjeu d'un
catalogage (pages 247-257)

A. Al-Salimi , Different succession chronologies of the Nabhani dynasty in Oman (pages 259-268)

Arabia in the Ottoman period

R. Giunta , The talismanic-religious nature of late Ottoman inscriptions in the Tihamah cities (pages 269-279)

B. Nicolini , Historical and political links between Gwadar and Muscat from 19th century testimonies (pages 281-286)

C.K. Smith , Kawkaban, the key to Sinan Pasha's campaign in the Yemen (March 1569 - March 1571) (pages 287-294)

Y. Tobi , A Hebrew chronicle on the San'a' War between the Turks and the Yemenis (pages 295-300)

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