About the Book
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 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 53rd Seminar for Arabian Studies was hosted by the University of Leiden and took place in the Lipsius Building from Thursday IASA. In total sixty-five papers and twenty-three posters were presented at the three-day event. On Friday 12 July a special session on the stone tools of prehistoric Arabia was held, the papers from this session are published in a supplement to the main Seminar Proceedings.
Table of Contents:
Editors’ Foreword ;
In Memoriam Jocelyn Cecilia Orchard, 1936–2019 ;
Desert tombs: recent research into the Bronze Age and Iron Age cairn burials of Jebel Qurma, north-east Jordan – Peter M.M.G. Akkermans, Merel L. Brüning, Monique Arntz, Sarah A. Inskip & Keshia A.N. Akkermans ;
On the nature of South Arabian influences in Ethiopia during the late first millennium BC: late pre-Aksumite settlement on the margins of the eastern Tigray plateau – Anne Benoist, Iwona Gajda, Steven Matthews, Jérémie Schiettecatte, Ninon Blond, Saskia Büchner & Pawel Wolf ;
Pottery from the al-Zubārah suq – Agnieszka Magdalena Bystron ;
The dawn of the Islamic era? The excavation of Yughbī in the Crowded Desert of Qatar – Jose C. Carvajal López, Kirk Roberts, Laura Morabito, Gareth Rees, Frank Stremke, Anke Marsh, David M. Freire-Lista, Robert Carter & Faiṣal ‘Abd Allāh al-Na‘īmī ;
First discoveries of the Bāt/al-Arid mission (Sultanate of Oman) – Corinne Castel, Olivier Barge, Blandine Besnard, Tara Beuzen-Waller, Jacques Élie Brochier, Lionel Darras, Emmanuelle Régagnon & Séverine Sanz ;
Large-sized camel depictions in western Arabia: a characterization across time and space – Guillaume Charloux, Maria Guagnin & Jérôme Norris ;
The Ras al-Jinz reloaded: resuming excavations at the edge of Arabia – Alexandre P. De Rorre, Jean-François Berger, Massimo Delfino, Jonathan M. Kenoyer, Elena Maini & Valentina M. Azzarà ;
Kalbā and dāw in Khaliji art: tracing extinct dhows in Arab and Persian iconography – Mick de Ruyter ;
New light on the late Wadi Suq period from the Ṣuhār hinterlands – Michel de Vreeze, Bleda Düring & Eric Olijdam ;
Nothing but tombs and towers? Results of the Al-Mudhaybi Regional Survey 2019 – Stephanie Döpper & Conrad Schmidt ;
Excavations at Wādī al-Sail, Bahrain 2015–2019 – Takeshi Gotoh, Kiyohide Saito, Masashi Abe & Akinori Uesugi ;
Renewed research at the Iron Age II site of Hili 2 (Emirate of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) – Steven Karacic, Ali Abdu Rahman Al Meqbali, Abdulla Khalfan Al Kaabi, Dia Eddin Abdullah Altawallbeh, Hamad Ahmed Fadel & Peter Magee ;
A ninth- to tenth-century pottery workshop at al-Yamāmah, Central Arabia – Fabien Lesguer & Jérémie Schiettecatte ;
Les fouilles françaises de Abu Saiba (Mont 1). Données nouvelles sur la phase Tylos de Bahreïn (c.200 BC–AD 300) – Pierre Lombard, Bérénice Chamel, Julien Cuny, Marianne Cotty, François Guermont, Robert Lux & Lionel Noca ;
Trade and contacts between southern Arabia and East Asia: the evidence from al-Balīd (southern Oman) – Alexia Pavan & Chiara Visconti ;
Ceramic exchange in the northern UAE during the Late Bronze Age: preliminary results of macroscopic and petrographic analyses – Maria Paola Pellegrino, Sophie Méry, Anne Benoist, Sophie Costa & Julien Charbonnier ;
Excavations at the Old Fort of Stone Town, Zanzibar: new evidence of historic interactions between the Swahili coast and Arabian Gulf – Timothy Power & Mark Horton with Omar Salem al-Kaabi, Mohamed Matar al-Dhaheri, Myriam Saleh al-Dhaheri, Noura Hamed al-Hameli, Henry Webber & Rosie Ireland ;
Late Islamic ceramic distribution networks in the Gulf: new evidence from Jazīrat al-Ḥamrāʾ in Ras al-Khaimah – Seth M.N. Priestman ;
Some thoughts on the burial space inside QA 1-1, an Umm an-Nar tomb in Wādī al-Fajj (Oman): a case of incomplete paving of the tomb’s floor – Łukasz Rutkowski ;
Assessing Kalba: new fieldwork at a Bronze Age coastal site on the Gulf of Oman (Emirate of Sharjah, UAE) – Christoph Schwall & Sabah A. Jasim ;
Taxation and public labour in ancient Sabaʾ: an examination of ḫrṣ using the Leiden and Munich minuscule inscriptions – Jason Weimar ;
Titles of papers read at the Seminar for Arabian Studies held at the University of Leiden, 11–13 July 2019
