Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies - Vol. 34 (2004)

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CONTENTS

Transliteration (vii)
Summaries of the papers in this volume (ix-xvi)
Peter J. Parr, John Dayton and the founding of the Seminar for Arabian Studies (xvii-xviii)

Southern Arabia

Rémy Crassard & Pierre Bodu, Préhistoire du Hadramawt (Yémen): nouvelles perspectives (pages 67-84)

Burkhard Vogt, Towards a new dating of the great dam of Marib. Preliminary results of the 2002 fieldwork of the German Institute of Archaeology (pages 377-388)

Norbert Nebes, A new Abraha inscription from the Great Dam of Marib (pages 221-230)

Mohammed Maraqten, The processional road between Old Marib and the Awam temple in the light of a recently discovered inscription from Mahram Bilqis (pages 157-163)

Peter Stein, A Sabaic proverb. The Sabaic minuscule inscription Mon.script.sab. 129 (pages 331-341)

Anne Regourd & Noha Sadek, Nouvelles données sur la topographie de Zabid (Yémen) au dix-huitième siècle (pages 293-305)

Nancy Um, Eighteenth-century patronage in Sana: building for the new capital during the second century of the Qasimi imamate (pages 361-375)

Mikhail Rodionov, Mashhad Ali revisited: documents from Hadramat (pages 307-312)

Ester Muchawsky-Schnapper, An exceptional type of Yemeni necklace from the beginning of the twentieth century as an example of introducing artistic novelty into a traditional craft (pages 181-192)

Ceramics in Yemen. Trade in the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean

William D. Glanzman, Beyond their borders: a common potting tradition and ceramic horizon within South Arabia during the later first millennium BC through the early first millennium AD (pages 121-138)

Barbara Davidde, Roberto Petriaggi & David F. Williams, New data on the commercial trade of the harbour of Kane through the typological and petrographic study of the pottery (pages 85-100)

Alexandra Porter, Amphora trade between South Arabia and East Africa in the first millennium BC: a re-examination of the evidence (pages 261-275)

Roberta Tomber, Rome and South Arabia: new artefactual evidence from the Red Sea (pages 351-360)

Carl Phillips, François Villeneuve & William Facey, A Latin inscription from South Arabia (pages 239-250)

Anne Regourd, Trade on the Red Sea during the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods. The Quseir paper manuscript collection 1999–2003, first data (pages 277-292)

South-Eastern and Eastern Arabia

Vincent Charpentier, Trihedral points: a new facet to the "Arabian Bifacial Tradition"? (pages 53-66)

Mark Beech, Heiko Kallweit & Peter Hellyer, New archaeological investigations at Abu Dhabi Airport, United Arab Emirates (pages 1-15)

Heiko Kallweit, Lithics from the Emirates: the Abu Dhabi Airport sites (pages 139-145)

Jürgen Schreiber & Jutta Häser, Archaeological survey at Tiwi and its hinterland (Central Oman) (pages 319-329)

Caroline Cartwright, Reconstructing the use of coastal resources at Rams al-Hadd, Oman, in the third millennium BC (pages 45-51)

Ralph K. Pedersen, Traditional Arabian watercraft and the ark of the Gilgamesh epic: interpretations and realizations (pages 231-238)

A. Benoist, V. Bernard, A. Hamel, F. Saint-Genez, J. Schiettecatte, M. Skorupka, L'Age du Fer à Bithnah (Emirat de Fujairah): campagnes 2001–2002 (pages 17-34)

Tom Vosmer, Qalhat, an ancient port of Oman: results of the first mission (pages 389-404)

H. Stewart Edgell, The myth of the "lost city of the Arabian sands" (pages 105-120)

Valeria Fiorani Piacentini, The mercantile empire of the Tibis: economic predominance, political power, military subordination (pages 251-260)

William & Fidelity Lancaster, with a technical report by Martin Bridge, Tree cores from Ras al-Khaimah (pages 147-156)

Birgit Mershen, Pots and tombs in Ibra, Oman. Investigations into the archaeological surface record of Islamic cemeteries and the related burial customs and funerary rituals (pages 165-179)

Yaqoub Salim al-Busaidi, The protection and management of historic monuments in the Sultanate of Oman: the historic buildings of Oman (pages 35-44)

Mashary A. al-Naim, The dynamics of a traditional Arab town: the case of Hofuf, Saudi Arabia (pages 193-207)

Arabic and Nabataean

François de Blois, Quran IX:37 and CIH 547 (pages 101-104)

Yosef Tobi, The orthography of pre-Saadianic Judaeo-Arabic compared with the orthography of the inscriptions of pre-Islamic Arabia (pages 343-349)

Samia Naïm, Le traitement syntaxique des relations inaliénables en arabe yéménite de Sana (pages 209-219)

Janet C.E. Watson, On the linguistic archaeology of Sana Arabic (pages 405-412)

Salah Said & M. al-Hamad, Three short Nabataean inscriptions from Umm al-Jimal (pages 313-318)


List of the papers read at the thirty-seventh Seminar for Arabian Studies, London, 17-19 July 2003 (pages 413-415)



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