Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies - Vol. 41 (2011)

Papers from the forty-fourth meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held in London, 22-24 July 2010

Edited by Janet Starkey

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

ISSN 0308-8421
ISBN 978-1-905739-40-0

Published July 2011, £65.00

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 v)

Editors' Foreword (page vii)

In memoriam - Selma Al-Radi (page ix-x)

In memoriam - Alessandro de Maigret (page xi-xiii)

In memoriam - Dr Gerd Weisgerber (page xv-xvi)

Contents:
1) Olga Andriyanova, Some observations on women in Omani sources (pages 1-12);

2) Paul Breeze, Richard Cuttler & Paul Collins, Archaeological landscape characterization in Qatar through satellite and aerial photographic analysis, 2009 to 2010 (pages 13-26);

3) Fabio Cavulli & Simona Scaruffi, Fishing kit implements from KHB-1: net sinkers and lures (poster) (pages 27-34);

4) Julien Charbonnier, The distribution of storage and diversion dams in the western mountains of South Arabia during the Himyarite period (pages 35-46);

5) Richard Cuttler, Emma Tetlow & Faisal al-Naimi, Assessing the value of palaeoenvironmental data and geomorphological processes for understanding Late Quaternary population dynamics in Qatar (pages 47-60);

6) Christian Darles, Les fortifications de Khor Rorī – ‘Sumhuram’ (poster) (pages 61-68);

7) Philipp Drechsler, Places of contact, spheres of interaction. The Ubaid phenomenon in the central Gulf area as seen from a first season of reinvestigations at Dosariyah (Dawsāriyyah), Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia (pages 69-82);

8) Orhan Elmaz, khushub musannadah (Qurān 63. 4) and Epigraphic South Arabian ms3nd (pages 83-94);

9) Roman Garba & Peter Farrington, Walled structures and settlement patterns in the south-western part of Dhofar, Oman (poster) (pages 95-100);

10) Francesco G. Fedele, The wall and talus at Barāqish, ancient Yathill (al-Jawf, Yemen): a Minaean stratigraphy (pages 101-120);

11) Hilal al-Hajri, Through evangelizing eyes: American missionaries to Oman (pages 121-132);

12) Nasser Said al-Jahwari, Quantified analysis of long-term settlement trends in the northern Oman peninsula (pages 133-143);

13) Sarah Japp, Iris Gerlach, Holger Hitgen & Mike Schnelle, Yeha and Hawelti: cultural contacts between Saba and DMT – New research by the German Archaeological Institute in Ethiopia (pages 145-160);

14) Derek Kennet, Andrew Blair, Brian Ulrich & Sultan M. al-Duwīsh, The Kadhima Project: investigating an Early Islamic settlement and landscape on Kuwait Bay (poster) (pages 161-172);

15) Sterenn Le Maguer, Typology of incense-burners of the Islamic period (pages 173-185);

16) Phillip G. Macumber, A geomorphological and hydrological underpinning for archaeological research in northern Qatar (pages 187-200);

17) Lapo Gianni Marcucci, Francesco Genchi, Émilie Badel & Maurizio Tosi, Recent investigations at the prehistoric site RH-5 (Ras al-Hamrā, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman) (pages 201-222);

18) Mike Morley, Robert Carter & Christian Velde, Geoarchaeological investigations at the site of Julfār (al-Nudūd and al-Matāf), Ras al-Khaymah, UAE: preliminary results from the auger-hole survey (poster) (pages 223-232);

19) Helen Moulden, Richard Cuttler & Shane Kelleher, Conserving and contextualizing national cultural heritage: the 3-D digitization of the fort at al-Zubārah and petroglyphs at Jabal al-Jusāsiyyah, Qatar (poster) (pages 233-238);

20) Faisal al-Naimi, Kathryn M. Price, Richard Cuttler & Hatem Arrock, Reassessing Wādī Debayan (Wādī al-Dabayān): an important Early Holocene Neolithic multi-occupational site in western Qatar (poster) (pages 239-244);

21) Andrew Petersen, Research on an Islamic period settlement at Ras Ushayriq in northern Qatar and some observations on the occurrence of date presses (pages 245-256);

22) David W. Phillipson, Relations between southern Arabia and the northern Horn of Africa during the last millennium BC (pages 257-265);

23) Timothy Power & Peter Sheehan, Bayt Bin Ātī in the Qattārah oasis: a prehistoric industrial site and the formation of the oasis landscape of al-Ain, UAE (pages 267-281);

24) Alessia Prioletta, The Sabaic inscription A–20–216: a new Sabaean-Seleucid synchronism (pages 283-294);

25) Saad bin Abdulaziz al-Rashid, Al-Suwaydirah (old al-Taraf) and its Early Islamic inscriptions (pages 295-307);

26) Gareth Rees, Tobias Richter & Alan Walmsley, Investigations in al-Zubārah hinterland at Murayr and al-Furayhah, north-west Qatar (poster) (pages 309-316);

27) Tobias Richter, Paul Wordsworth & Alan Walmsley, Pearl fishers, townsfolk, Bedouin, and shaykhs: economic and social relations in Islamic al-Zubārah (pages 317-332);

28) Mikhail Rodionov, Contemporary tribal versions of local history in Hadramawt (pages 333-337);

29) Abdulla Al-Sulaiti, A view of the defence strategy of Muharraq, a tribal town in the Gulf (poster) (pages 339-347);

30) Solaiman Abd al-Rahmān al-Theeb, New Nabataean inscriptions from the site of al-Sīj in the region of al-Ulā, Saudi Arabia (pages 349-369);

31) Ingolf Thuesen & Moritz Kinzel, Al-Zubārah Archaeological Park as a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site – a master plan for its site management, preservation, and presentation (poster) (pages 371-376);

32) Brian Ulrich, Oman and Bahrain in Late Antiquity: the Sasanians’ Arabian periphery (pages 377-386);

33) Nancy Um, From the port of Mocha to the eighteenth-century tomb of Imām al-Mahdī MuΉammad in al-Mawāhib: locating architectural icons and migratory craftsmen (pages 387-399);

34) Lisa Urkevich, Drummers of the Najd: musical practices from Wādī al-Dawāsir, Saudi Arabia (pages 401-409);

35) Tom Vosmer, Luca Belfioretti, Eric Staples & Alessandro Ghidoni, The Jewel of Muscat Project: reconstructing an early ninth-century CE Shipwreck (pages 411-424);

36) Janet C.E. Watson & Munira Al-Azraqi, Lateral fricatives and lateral emphatics in southern Saudi Arabia and Mehri (pages 425-431).

Titles of papers read at the Seminar for Arabian Studies held at the British Museum, London on 22-24 July 2010 (pages 433-436)

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