Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies - Vol. 33 (2003)

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements vi
Transliteration vii
Summaries of the papers in this volume ix

The Archaeology and History of Oman and the Gulf

Peter Magee , New chronometric data defining the Iron Age II period in south-eastern Arabia (pages 1-10)

Vincent Charpentier, Philippe Marquis & Éric Pellé , La nécropole et les derniers horizons Ve millénaire du site de Gorbat al-Mahar (Suwayh, SWY-1, Sultanat d'Oman) : premiers résultats (pages 11-20)

Jutta Häser , Archaeological results of the 1999 and 2000 survey campaigns in Wadi Bani Awf and the region of al-Hamra (Central Oman) (pages 21-30)

Cécile Monchablon, Rémy Crassard, Olivia Munoz, Hervé Guy, Gaëlle Bruley-Chabot & Serge Cleuziou , Excavations at Ra's al-Jinz RJ-1: stratigraphy without tells (pages 31-48)

Tom Vosmer , The Magan Boat Project: a process of discovery, a discovery of process (pages 49-58)

Anne Benoist, Michel Mouton & Jeremie Schiettecatte , The artefacts from the fort at Mleiha: distribution, origins, trade and dating (pages 59-76)

Ali Tigani ElMahi & Moawiyah Ibrahim , Two seasons of investigations at Manal site in the Wadi Samayil area, Sultanate of Oman (pages 77-98)

Soumyen Bandyopadhyay & Magda Sibley , The distinctive typology of central Omani mosques: its nature and antecedents (pages 99-116)

Caesar E. Farah , Anglo-Ottoman confrontation in the Persian Gulf in the late 19th and early 20th centuries (pages 117-132)

Comparative Water Systems

Miquel Barceló, Julián Ortega, Arcadi Piera & Josep Torró , The Search for the Hararah asdad in the area of Zafar, Governorate of Ibb, Yemen (pages 133-142)

Helena Kirchner , Ma'jil: a type of hydraulic system in Yemen and in al-Andalus? (pages 143-156)

The Archaeology and History of Pre-Islamic Yemen

T.J. Wilkinson , The organization of settlement in highland Yemen during the Bronze and Iron Ages (pages 157-168)

Frank Braemer, Serge Cleuziou & Tara Steimer , Dolmen-like structures: some unusual funerary monuments in Yemen (pages 169-182)

William D. Glanzman , An examination of the building campaign of Yada''il Dharih bin Sumhu'alay, mukarrib of Saba, in light of recent archaeology (pages 183-198)

Jean-François Breton , Preliminary notes on the development of Shabwa (pages 199-214)

Christian Darles , Les fortifications de Shabwa, capitale du royaume de Hadramawt (pages 215-228)

Jan Retsö , When did Yemen become Arabia felix? (pages 229-236)

The Epigraphy of Pre-Islamic Yemen

Joseph L. Daniels , Landscape graffiti in the Dhamar Plains and its relation to mountain-top religious practice (pages 237-250)

Serguei A. Frantsouzof , The Hadramitic funerary inscription from the cave-tomb at al-Rukbah (Wadi Ghabr, Inland Hadramawt) and burial ceremonies in ancient Hadramawt (pages 251-266)

Peter Stein , The inscribed wooden sticks of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich (pages 267-274)

Mohammed Maraqten , Some notes on Sabaic epistolography (pages 275-286)

Yemen in the Islamic Period

A. Rougeulle , Excavations at Sharmah, Hadramawt the 2001 and 2002 seasons (pages 287-308)

Noha Sadek , Taizz, capital of the Rasulid dynasty in Yemen (pages 309-314)

Ethnography in Yemen

Vitaly Naumkin & Victor Porkhomovsky , Oral poetry in the Soqotran socio-cultural context. The case of the ritual song - The girl and the jinn (pages 315-318)

Miranda Morris , The Soqotra Archipelago: concepts of good health and everyday remedies for illness (pages 319-342)

Ester Muchawsky-Schnapper , Children's attire in early 20th-century Sana'a as a socio-cultural paradigm (pages 343-355)

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