Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 53 2024
Papers from the fifty-sixth meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held in Aarhus 4–6 August 2023
Edited by Matthew Johnson Edited by José C. Carvajal López
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(June 2024)
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The Seminar for Arabian Studies is the longest continually running academic forum for the presentation of cultural heritage research on the Arabian Peninsula. Subjects include archaeology, epigraphy, history, ethnography, art, architecture, linguistics, and literature from prehistory to the early twentieth century.
The Seminar for Arabian Studies is the longest-running academic forum for the presentation of research on the cultural and natural heritage of the Arabian Peninsula. Since its first meeting in 1968, the Seminar has covered a wide range of subjects including archaeology, epigraphy, history, ethnography, art, architecture, linguistics, and literature from prehistory to the present. Since 2019 the Seminar has changed from being a British-based forum to an international setting, starting with a meeting in the University of Leiden and continuing with other European institutions. The 56th Seminar in Aarhus in 2023 was a special one, as it marked the 70th anniversary of the first Danish archaeological expedition to Bahrain led by T. Geoffrey Bibby and P.V. Glob, from the Prehistoric Museum of Moesgaard. This is justly considered the starting point of archaeological research on Arabia, as it was the first time that formal excavations were undertaken in the region. This volume of the Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies includes 21 papers presented at Aarhus.
Guidelines and Transliteration Editors' Foreword In Memoriam. Peter Hellyer, 1947-2023, Donald Whitcomb, 1944-2024, Prof. Juris Zarins, 1945-2023 The Quranic 'Abb as a South Arabian magical formula - Mohammed Atbuosh Behind the camera, photographic approaches through the archive collection of AlUla Old Town - Helene Canaud, Apolline Vernet & Benedicte Khan The ceramics of Yughbi (Qatar), one of the earliest Islamic sites of the Gulf - Jose Cristobal Carvajal Lopez Aden and Malabar: trade and religious networks between a South Arabian port and the medieval Malabar Coast - Hafis Chalthodi The mrzh of Qaryat al-Faw: the frescoes and their Egyptian connections - Juan de Lara with transcriptions by Peter Stein The Islamic mining settlement of al-Salayli: results of the first excavation season - Michela Gaudiello Closing the gap: survey and excavation at Ibra', Sultanate of Oman - Jonas Kluge Tombs and landscapes in a canyon of the al-Hajar mountains: results of the surveys at WTN07 in the Tanuf District (North-Central Oman), 2022-2023 - Taichi Kuronuma, Kantaro Tanabe, Takehiro Miki & Yasuhisa Kondo New data on the necropolis of Thaj: evolution of the funerary architecture - Marie Laguardia Dumat al-Jandal, a North Arabian oasis from the Assyrian period to the advent of Islam. Results and perspectives after field and remote survey seasons 2019-2022 - Romolo Loreto, Teodoro Cocozza, Alessia Vitale, Carmine Andrea Falco, Bruno Marcolongo, Simona Berardino & Martina De Simone Archaeological excavations at Umm an-Nar Island 1959-2022 - Ali Abdu Rahman Al Meqbali and Daniel Eddisford with contributions from Michel de Vreeze, Hager Hasan Almenhali, Abdulla Al Yammahi, Hamad Fadel, Dia Al Tawalbeh, Sam Botan & Hannah Russ The 'al-'Uqla texts' revisited - Anne Multhoff New insights on Bronze Age funerary monuments in the Hajar foothills: surveys and excavations at Bisya (Ad-Dakhiliyyah, Sultanate of Oman) - Olivia Munoz, Kaina Rointru, Mathilde Jean, Maria Paola Pellegrino, Caroline Renaux, Marie Laguardia, Paula Gomez Sanz & Marianne Cotty Architecture, social relations, and trade at mountain settlements in Iron Age Oman - Paige E. Paulsen, Amir H. Zaribaf, Joseph W. Lehner, Helene David-Cuny, Ioana A. Dumitru, Smiti Nathan, Alexander J. Sivitskis, John L. Shannon, Frances Wiig, Bradley Arsenault & Michael J. Harrower Excavations at a late antique to early Islamic pearling town and monastery on Siniya Island, Umm al-Quwain - Timothy Power, Michele Degli Esposti, Robert Hoyland, Rania Hussein Kannouma, Federico Borgi, Urszula Iwaszczuk, Elena Maini, Teresa Nicolosi & Seth Priestman Hafit period fuelwood preferences associated with early copper production at Building V, al-Khashbah, Oman - Lucas Proctor, Stephanie Dopper & Conrad Schmidt Preliminary results of the first season of investigations of a palatial complex in the World Heritage Site of At-Turaif (al-Turayf) District in Diriyah (al-Dir'iyya) (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) - Martina Renzi, Justine Gaborit, Nawaf Almeteri, Adonice-Ackad Baaklini, Niels Fourchet, Pierre-Lou Schang, Fatimah Bintalib & Anna Tomasinelli Aflaj discoveries in al-'Ayn - exploring and documenting the network of shafts and tunnels recently revealed below the streets of the modern city - Peter Sheehan, Mohammed Khalifa, Malak Al Ajou, Nour Al Marzooqi, Jaber Al Merri & Timothy Power South Arabian documentation on wooden sticks: a resume fifty years after discovery - Peter Stein An archive of 4000 years of human occupation in the al-'Ula Valley: a preliminary diachronic study of the pottery record - Francelin Tourtet, Maria Paola Pellegrino, Cassandra Furstos, Anne Leschallier de Lisle, Gael Gourret, Mathias Haze, Jean-Daniel Ricart, Yasmin Kanhoush & Julien Charbonnier Socio-political factors influencing early Islamic copper production in Oman - Amir Zaribaf, Joseph Lehner, Paige Paulsen, Ioana A. Dumitru, Alexander Sivitskis, Bradley Arsenault, Brendan Fisher, Abigail Buffington, Eli Dollarhide & Michael J. Harrower Titles of papers read at the Seminar for Arabian Studies held in Aarhus 4-6 August 2023,
Guidelines and Transliteration
Editors’ Foreword
In Memoriam. Peter Hellyer, 1947–2023, Donald Whitcomb, 1944–2024, Prof. Juris Zarins, 1945–2023
The Quranic ʾAbb as a South Arabian magical formula – Mohammed Atbuosh
Behind the camera, photographic approaches through the archive collection of AlUla Old Town – Hélène Canaud, Apolline Vernet & Bénédicte Khan
The ceramics of Yughbī (Qatar), one of the earliest Islamic sites of the Gulf – José Cristóbal Carvajal López
Aden and Malabar: trade and religious networks between a South Arabian port and the medieval Malabar Coast – Hafis Chalthodi
The mrzḥ of Qaryat al‑Fāw: the frescoes and their Egyptian connections – Juan de Lara with transcriptions by Peter Stein
The Islamic mining settlement of al‑Ṣalaylī: results of the first excavation season – Michela Gaudiello
Closing the gap: survey and excavation at Ibrāʾ, Sultanate of Oman – Jonas Kluge
Tombs and landscapes in a canyon of the al‑Ḥajar mountains: results of the surveys at WTN07 in the Tanūf District (North-Central Oman), 2022–2023
– Taichi Kuronuma, Kantaro Tanabe, Takehiro Miki & Yasuhisa Kondo
New data on the necropolis of Thāj: evolution of the funerary architecture – Marie Laguardia
Dūmat al‑Jandal, a North Arabian oasis from the Assyrian period to the advent of Islam. Results and perspectives after field and remote survey seasons 2019–2022 – Romolo Loreto, Teodoro Cocozza, Alessia Vitale, Carmine Andrea Falco, Bruno Marcolongo, Simona Berardino & Martina De Simone
Archaeological excavations at Umm an-Nar Island 1959–2022 – Ali Abdu Rahman Al Meqbali and Daniel Eddisford with contributions from Michel de Vreeze, Hager Hasan Almenhali, Abdulla Al Yammahi, Hamad Fadel, Dia Al Tawalbeh, Sam Botan & Hannah Russ
The ‘al‑ʿUqla texts’ revisited – Anne Multhoff
New insights on Bronze Age funerary monuments in the Ḥajar foothills: surveys and excavations at Bisya (Ad-Dākhilīyyah, Sultanate of Oman) – Olivia Munoz, Kaïna Rointru, Mathilde Jean, Maria Paola Pellegrino, Caroline Renaux, Marie Laguardia, Paula Gómez Sanz & Marianne Cotty
Architecture, social relations, and trade at mountain settlements in Iron Age Oman – Paige E. Paulsen, Amir H. Zaribaf, Joseph W. Lehner, Hélène David-Cuny, Ioana A. Dumitru, Smiti Nathan, Alexander J. Sivitskis, John L. Shannon, Frances Wiig, Bradley Arsenault & Michael J. Harrower
Excavations at a late antique to early Islamic pearling town and monastery on Sīnīya Island, Umm al‑Quwain – Timothy Power, Michele Degli Esposti, Robert Hoyland, Rania Hussein Kannouma, Federico Borgi, Urszula Iwaszczuk, Elena Maini, Teresa Nicolosi & Seth Priestman
Hafit period fuelwood preferences associated with early copper production at Building V, al‑Khashbah, Oman – Lucas Proctor, Stephanie Döpper & Conrad Schmidt
Preliminary results of the first season of investigations of a palatial complex in the World Heritage Site of At-Turaif (al‑Ṭurayf) District in Diriyah (al‑Dirʿiyya) (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) – Martina Renzi, Justine Gaborit, Nawaf Almeteri, Adonice-Ackad Baaklini, Niels Fourchet, Pierre-Lou Schang, Fatimah Bintalib & Anna Tomasinelli
Aflāj discoveries in al‑ʿAyn — exploring and documenting the network of shafts and tunnels recently revealed below the streets of the modern city – Peter Sheehan, Mohammed Khalifa, Malak Al Ajou, Nour Al Marzooqi, Jaber Al Merri & Timothy Power
South Arabian documentation on wooden sticks: a résumé fifty years after discovery – Peter Stein
An archive of 4000 years of human occupation in the al‑ʿUlā Valley: a preliminary diachronic study of the pottery record – Francelin Tourtet, Maria Paola Pellegrino, Cassandra Furstos, Anne Leschallier de Lisle, Gaël Gourret, Mathias Haze, Jean-Daniel Ricart, Yasmin Kanhoush & Julien Charbonnier
Socio-political factors influencing early Islamic copper production in Oman – Amir Zaribaf, Joseph Lehner, Paige Paulsen, Ioana A. Dumitru, Alexander Sivitskis, Bradley Arsenault, Brendan Fisher, Abigail Buffington, Eli Dollarhide & Michael J. Harrower
Titles of papers read at the Seminar for Arabian Studies held in Aarhus 4–6 August 2023
- Edited by Matthew Johnson
- Edited by José C. Carvajal López
Other Titles in this Series
Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 54 2025
Papers from the fifty-seventh meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held at the Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris, 27–29 June 2024
Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 51 2022
Papers from the fifty-fourth meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held virtually on 2–4 and 9–11 July 2021
Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 52 2023
Papers from the fifty-fifth meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held at Humboldt Universität, Berlin, 5–7 August 2022
Development of Arabic as a Written Language
Supplement to the Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 40 2010
Revealing Cultural Landscapes in North-West Arabia
Supplement to the Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies volume 51
Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 46, 2016
Papers from the forty-seventh meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held at the British Museum, London, 24 to 26 July 2015
Stone Tools of Prehistoric Arabia: Papers from the Special Session of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held on 21 July 2019
Supplement to the Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 50 2020
Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 43 2013
Papers from the forty-sixth meeting, London, 13–15 July 2012
Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 49 2019
Papers from the fifty-second meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held at the British Museum, London, 3 to 5 August 2018
Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 44 2014
Papers from the forty-seventh meeting, London, 26–28 July 2013
Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 50 2020
Papers from the fifty-third meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held at the University of Leiden from Thursday 11th to Saturday 13th July 2019
Languages of Southern Arabia
Supplement to the Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 44 2014
Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 47 2017
Papers from the fiftieth meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held at the British Museum, London, 29 to 31 July 2016
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