| Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 36 2006 2006 Edition Contributor(s): Carter, Rob (Editor), Simpson, St John (Editor) |
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ISBN: 190573901X ISBN-13: 9781905739011 Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing OUR PRICE: $89.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2006 Annotation: Papers from the thirty-ninth meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held in London, July 2005. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Archaeology |
| Dewey: 953 |
| Series: Seminar for Arabian Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 8.29" W x 9.69" (2.47 lbs) 300 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: PART ONE: A CELEBRATION OF A.F.L. BEESTON (1911-1995): (Michael Macdonald) Introductory Remarks; (Geert Jan van Gelder) An experiment with Beeston, Labid, and Ba ar: on translating Classical Arabic verse; (James E. Montgomery) Beeston and the singing-girls; (Clive Holes) The Arabic dialects of Arabia; (Janet Watson, Bonnie Glover Stalls, Khalid al-Razihi and Shelagh Weir) The language of Jabal Razi?: Arabic or something else?; (Christian Robin) L'institution monarchique en Arabie du Sud antique: les contributions fondatrices d'A.F.L. Beeston reexaminees a la lumiere des decouvertes les plus recentes; (Mohammed Maraqten) Legal documents recently discovered by the AFSM at Ma?ram Bilqis, near Marib, Yemen; (Serguei A. Frantsouzoff) A Minaic inscription on the pedestal of an ibex figurine from the British Museum; (Alessandra Avanzini) Ancient South Arabian anthroponomastics: historical remarks; (Michael J. Zwettler) "Binding on the crown"; (Manfred Kropp) Burden and succession: a proposed Aramaicism in the inscription of Namara, or the diadochs of the Arabs PART TWO: ADDITIONAL NEW RESEARCH ON ARABIA (Soren Fredslund Andersen and Mustafa Ibrahim Salman) The Tylos Burials in Bahrain; (Djamel Boussaa) A future to the past: the case of Fareej Al-Bastakia in Dubai, UAE; (Paolo M. Costa) ?ank archaeological project: a preliminary report; (Remy Crassard, Joy McCorriston, Eric Oches, ?Abd Al-Aziz Bin ?Aqil, Julien Espagne and Mohammad Sinnah) Manayzah, early to mid-Holocene occupations in Wadi ?ana (?a?ramawt, Yemen); (Roland de Beauclair, Sabah A. Jasim and Hans-Peter Uerpmann) New results on the Neolithic jewellery from al-Buhais 18, UAE; (Ronald W. Hawker) Tribe, house style and the town layout of Jazirat al-Hamra, Ras al-Khaimah, UAE; (Moawiyah Ibrahim) Report on the 2005 AFSM excavations in the Ovoid Precinct at Ma?ram Bilqis/Marib: preliminary report; (Mutsuo Kawatoko and Risa Tokunaga) Arabic rock inscriptions of south Sinai; (M. Mouton, A. Benoist, J. Schiettecatte, M. Arbach and V. Bernard) Makaynun, a South Arabian site in the ?a?ramawt; (Adrian Parker, Caroline Davies and Tony Wilkinson) The early to mid-Holocene moist period in Arabia: some recent evidence from lacustrine sequences in eastern and south-western Arabia; (T. Steimer-Herbet, G. Davtian and F. Braemer) Pastoralists' tombs and settlement patterns in Wadi Wash?ah during the Bronze Age (?a?ramawt, Yemen); (Yosef Tobi) The ?ubayri Collection in the Harvard Peabody Museum and Harvard Semitic Museum; (Donatella Usai) A fourth-millennium BC Oman site and its context: Wadi Shab-GAS1; (Eric Vallet) Yemeni "oceanic policy" at the end of the thirteenth century. |