Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies - Vol. 39 (2009)

Papers from the forty-second meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held in London, 24-26 July 2008

Edited by Janet Starkey

386 pages; illustrated throughout with figures, plans, maps, drawings and photographs

ISSN 0308-8421
ISBN 978-19057-39233

Published July 2008, £49.00

Steering Committee of the Seminar and Editorial Committee of the Proceedings:
Dr R. Carter (Chairman), Prof. A. Avanzini, Dr M. Beech, Dr. N. Durrani, Dr R. Eichmann, Prof. C. Holes, Dr R.G. Hoyland, Dr. D. Kennet, Mr. M.C.A. Macdonald, Dr A. MacMahon (Secretary), Prof. K. Al-Muaikel, Dr V. Porter, Prof D. Potts, Prof. C. Robin, Dr St. J. Simpson, Mrs. J. Starkey (Editor), Mr. A. Thompson (Treasurer), Prof. J. Watson, Dr. L. Weeks

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CONTENTS:

Transliteration (page vii)

Editors' Foreword (page ix)

V.M. Azzara, Domestic architecture at the Early Bronze Age sites HD-6 and RJ-2 (Ja'alan, Sultanate of Oman) (pages 1-15)

Mark Beech, Marjan Mashkour, Matthias Huels & Antoine Zazzo, Prehistoric camels in south-eastern Arabia: the discovery of a new site in Abu Dhabi's Western Region, United Arab Emirates (pages 17-30)

Mohammed Ali Al-Belushi & Ali Tigani ElMahi, Archaeological investigations in Shenah, Sultanate of Oman (pages 31-42)

Lucia Benedikova & Peter Barta, A Bronze Age settlement at al-Khidr, Failakah Island, Kuwait (pages 43-56)

Olivier Brunet, Bronze and Iron Age carnelian bead production in the UAE and Armenia: new perspectives (pages 57-68)

Ingo Buchmann, Tobias Schroder & Paul Yule, Documentation and visualisation of archaeological sites in Yemen: an antique relief wall in Zafar (poster) (pages 69-71)

Fabio Cavulli, Emanuela Cristiani & Simona Scaruffi, Techno-functional analysis at the fishing settlement of KHB.1 (Ra's al-Khabbah, Ja'alan, Sultanate of Oman) (pages 73-80)

Julien Charbonnier, Dams in the western mountains of Yemen: a Himyarite model of water management (pages 81-93)

Christian Darles, Les monolithes dans l'architecture monumentale de l'Arabie du Sud antique (pages 95-109)

Daniel Eddisford & Carl Phillips, Kalba in the third millennium (Emirate of Sharjah, UAE) (pages 111-124)

Bat-Zion Eraqi-Klorman, Yemen: religion, magic, and Jews (pages 125-134)

Francesco G. Fedele, Sabaean animal economy and household consumption at Yala, eastern Khawlan al-Tiyal, Yemen (pages 135-154)

Serge A. Frantsouzoff, The status of sacred pastures according to Sabaic inscriptions (pages 155-161)

Jessica Giraud & Serge Cleuziou, Funerary landscape as part of the social landscape and its perceptions: 3000 Early Bronze Age burials in the eastern Ja'alan (Sultanate of Oman) (pages 163-180)

Alexandrine Guerin & Faysal al-Na'imi, Territory and settlement patterns during the Abbasid period (ninth century AD): the village of Murwab (Qatar) (pages 181-196)

Maria Hajnalova, Zora Miklikova & Tereza Belanova-Stolcova, Environmental research at al-Khidr, Failakah Island, Kuwait (pages 197-202)

Hani Hayajneh, Ancient North Arabian-Nabataean bilingual inscriptions from southern Jordan (pages 203-222)

Marco Iamoni, The Iron Age ceramic tradition in the Gulf: a re-evaluation from the Omani perspective (pages 223-236)

Manfred Kropp, "People of powerful South Arabian kings" or just "people of their kind we annihilated before"? Proper noun or common noun in Qur'an 44:37 and 50:14 (pages 237-244)

Johannes Kutterer & Sabah A. Jasim, First report on the copper-smelting site HLO-1 in Wadi al-Hilo, UAE (pages 245-253)

Romolo Loreto, House and household: a contextual approach to the study of South Arabian domestic architecture. A case study from seventh- to sixth-century BC Yala/ad-Durayb (pages 255-269)

Louise Martin, Joy McCorriston & Remy Crassard, Early Arabian pastoralism at Manayzah in Wadi Sana, Hadramawt (pages 271-282)

Giovanni Mazzini & Alexandra Porter, Stela BM 102600=CIH 611 in the British Museum: water regulation between two bordering estates (pages 283-294)

Anne Multhoff, "A parallel to the Second Commandment..." revisited (pages 295-301)

Khudooma al-Na'imi, The discovery of insect remains associated with a Bronze Age tomb in the United Arab Emirates: a preliminary study (poster) (pages 303-306)

Andrew Petersen, Islamic urbanism in eastern Arabia: the case of the al-'Ayn al-Buraymi oasis (pages 307-320)

Valeria Fiorani Piacentini & Christian Velde, The battle of Julfar (880/1475) (pages 321-335)

Alexandra Porter, Rebecca Stacey & Brendan Derham, The function of ceramic jar Type 4100: a preliminary organic residue analysis (pages 337-350)

C.N. Reeler, N.Y. Al-Shaikh & D.T. Potts, An historical cartographic study of the Yabrin oasis, Saudi Arabia (pages 351-358)

Katrien Rutten, South-east Arabian pottery at ed-Dur (al-Dur), Umm al-Qaiwayn, UAE: its origin, distribution, and role in the local economy (pages 359-372)

Abdulrahman al-Salimi, The Wajihids of Oman (pages 373-381)

Papers read at the 2008 Seminar (pages 383-386)

Posters presented at the 2008 Seminar (page 386)

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