Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 36 2006Rob Carter, St John Simpson PART ONE: A CELEBRATION OF A.F.L. BEESTON (1911-1995): (Michael Macdonald) Introductory Remarks; (Geert Jan van Gelder) An experiment with Beeston, Labīd, and BaΊΊār: 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 RāziΉ: Arabic or something else?; (Christian Robin) L'institution monarchique en Arabie du Sud antique: les contributions fondatrices d'A.F.L. Beeston réexaminées à la lumière des découvertes les plus récentes; (Mohammed Maraqten) Legal documents recently discovered by the AFSM at MaΉram Bilqīs, near Mārib, 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 Namāra, or the diadochs of the Arabs PART TWO: ADDITIONAL NEW RESEARCH ON ARABIA (Søren 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) Џank archaeological project: a preliminary report; (Rémy Crassard, Joy McCorriston, Eric Oches, ΚAbd Al-Aziz Bin ΚAqil, Julien Espagne and Mohammad Sinnah) Manayzah, early to mid-Holocene occupations in Wādī Сanā (ДaΡramawt, 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 MaΉram Bilqīs/Mārib: preliminary report; (Mutsuo Kawatoko and Risa Tokunaga) Arabic rock inscriptions of south Sinai; (M. Mouton, A. Benoist, J. Schiettecatte, M. Arbach and V. Bernard) Makaynūn, a South Arabian site in the ДaΡramawt; (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 Wādī WashΚah during the Bronze Age (ДaΡramawt, Yemen); (Yosef Tobi) The Сubayrī 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. |
Contents
James E Montgomery Beeston and the singinggirls 1724 | 17 |
Mohammed Maraqten Legal documents recently discovered by the AFSM at Maḥram Bilqīs | 53 |
Serguei A Frantsouzoff A Minaic inscription on the pedestal of an ibex figurine from the British Museum 6977 | 69 |
Copyright | |
7 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Aden AFSM Al-Bastakia al-Jāḥiz Almaqah Ancient South Antiquities Arabian Studies Arabic dialects Aramaic archaeological architectural arrowhead attested Bahrain Bastakia beads Bedouin Beeston bifacial bronze buildings burials century BC Classical Arabic Cleuziou coast context Coon cultural document Dubai Dussaud e-mail early eastern Epigraphic excavations FIGURE flakes fluting fragments Freddie Gulf Hadramawt Harvard Semitic Museum Himyar himyarite Holocene houses Inizan Islamic Jabal Jazirat al-Hamra jewellery king Labīd lake language layers linguistic lithic Manayzah millennium BC Muḥammad mukarrib Nabataean Neolithic obsidian occupation onomastics oval Peninsula period Peristyle Peristyle Hall phase photographs poetry pottery pre-Islamic Proceedings Qatabanic Ras al-Khaimah Rasulid Rāziḥī region Robin Saba Sabaean Sabaic Seminar for Arabian settlement Shabwa South Arabian south Sinai stones structures temple Thamudic tion tombs translation Tylos Uerpmann United Arab Emirates verb Wadi Wadi Shab Wādī Wash ah wall Yemen Za'ab