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, Rémy 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 use
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: Qur’an 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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