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
10.35 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
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
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
17.00 Dr Abdulkareem A. ALGHAMDI (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia), Gerrha and the Classical sources
FRIDAY
23 JULY 2004
Prehistory in the Gulf & Southeast Arabia
Chair: Dr Rob CARTER
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
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
14.55 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
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
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
12.25 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
14.55 Dr Ingrid HEHMEYER (Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada), Timing water allocation without clocks
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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