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(49 Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies)

The Seminar for Arabian Studies is the principal international academic forum for research on the Arabian Peninsula. First convened in 1968, it is the only annual academic event for the study of the Arabian Peninsula that brings together researchers from all over the world to present and discuss current fieldwork and the latest research. The Seminar covers an extensive range of diverse subjects that include anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art, epigraphy, ethnography, history, language, linguistics, literature, numismatics, theology, and more besides, from the earliest times to the present day or, in the fields of political and social history, to around the end of the Ottoman Empire (1922). The Seminar meets for three days each year, with an ever-increasing number of participants coming from around the globe to attend. In 2018 the fifty-second meeting took place, in which fifty-seven papers and posters were presented in London at the British Museum, where this prestigious event has been hosted since 2002.

Table of Contents:
In memoriam Paolo M. Costa, 1932–2019 A documentation of Old Jiddah’s Ottoman arbiṭah: selected case studies (poster) – by Hidaya M. Abbas Initial results of a research programme on Iron Age II pottery production in the al Ḥajar mountains: compositional analyses of pottery vessels used in a domestic context, in a reception building and in a ritual area at Masāfī (Fujairah, UAE) – by Anne Benoist, Sophie Méry, Steven Karacic, Maël Crépy, Louise Purdue & Sophie Costa An overview of the latest prehistoric research in Qumayrah Valley, Sultanate of Oman (poster) (Białowarczuk & Szymczak) [Open Access: Download] Pottery from al-Zubārah, Qatar: reference collection and ware typology – by Agnieszka Magdalena Bystron Production and provenance of Gulf wares unearthed in the Old Doha Rescue Excavations Project – by José C. Carvajal López, Marcella Giobbe, Elizabeth Adeyemo, Myrto Georgakopoulou, Robert Carter, Ferhan Sakal, Alice Bianchi & Faisal Al-Na’īmī Sultanate of Oman (seasons 2016–2018): insights on cultural interaction and long-distance trade – by Maurizio Cattani, Jonathan Mark Kenoyer, Dennys Frenez, Randall W. Law & Sophie Méry Al-Khutm Project 2017/2018: a Bronze Age monumental tower (Bat, Oman) – by Enzo Cocca, Giacomo Vinci, Maurizio Cattani, Alessandro Armigliato, Antonio Di Michele, Marco Bianchi & Ilenia Gennuso The Late Iron Age of central Oman (c.300 BC–AD 300) — new insights from Salūt – by Michele Degli Esposti, Enrica Tagliamonte, Marzia Sasso & Philip Ramorino The Bronze Age cultural landscape of Wādī al-Zahaimi – by Bleda S. Düring, Samatar A. Botan, Eric Olijdam & Jordy H.J.M. Aal New project on Islamic ceramics from al-Balīd: chronology, technology, tradition, and provenance – by Agnese Fusaro Triliths, the stone monuments of southern Arabia: preliminary results and a path towards interpretation – by Roman Garba The gendered household: making space for women in the study of Islamic archaeology in Qatar (poster) – by Elizabeth R. Hicks The Palaeolithic of the northern Red Sea — new investigations in Tabuk and Al-Jawf provinces, Saudi Arabia – by Robyn H. Inglis, Anthony Sinclair, Abdullah Alsharekh, Christopher Scott & Dhaifullah Al Otaibi Variation in the Dadanitic inscriptions: the case of RḌY – by Fokelien Kootstra Modern South Arabian material from the diaries of Eduard Glaser – by Anton Kungl The necropolis of Thāj (Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia): an archaeological and anthropological approach (poster) – by Marie Laguardia, Olivia Munoz & Jérôme Rohmer ‘The numerous islands of Ichthyophagi’: Neolithic fisheries of Delma Island, Abu Dhabi Emirate (UAE) – by Kevin Lidour & Mark Jonathan Beech Neolithic settlement pattern and environment evolution along the coast of the northern UAE: the case of Umm al-Quwain UAQ36 vs. UAQ2 and Akab shell-middens – by Sophie Méry, Michele Degli Esposti, David Aoustin, Federico Borgi, Claire Gallou, Chantal Leroyer, Kevin Lidour, Susanne Lindauer, Gareth W. Preston & Adrian G. Parker Rhodian amphora trade in Arabia (poster) – by Bruno Overlaet, Patrick Monsieur, Sabah Jasim & Eisa Yousif A Friday Mosque founded in the late first century A.H. at al-Yamāmah: origins and evolution of Islamic religious architecture in Najd – by Jérémie Schiettecatte, Christian Darles & Pierre Siméon The Hafit period at Al-Khashbah, Sultanate of Oman: results of four years of excavations and material studies – by Conrad Schmidt & Stephanie Döpper Early Islamic and Ancient North Arabian graffiti and petroglyphs in Tabūk province — Saudi-Japanese al-Jawf/Tabūk Archaeological Project (JTAP), March 2017 field season (poster) – by Risa Tokunaga, Sumio Fujii & Takuro Adachi Anthropomorphic figurines from Area 2A of Sārūq al-Ḥadīd, Dubai, UAE – by Tatiana Valente, Fernando Contreras, Ahmed Mahmud, Yaaqoub Yousif Ali Al Ali & Mansour Boraik Radwan Karim The origins of the traditional approach towards the jinn of poetic inspiration in tribal Arab culture – by Maxim Yosefi Papers read at the Seminar for Arabian Studies held at the British Museum, London, 3–5 August 2018