The task of the South Arabian project “Pilot-3D-Digitizing of Rare
Ancient South Arabian Squeezes, 19th Century Glaser Collection” based at
the Austrian Academy of Sciences is to digitize the Glaser squeezes
currently kept in the archive of the academy. The inscriptions from
which these squeezes were taken are in the Sabaic, Qatabānic, Minaic,
and Ḥaḍramitic languages, ranging in date from the early seventh century
BCE to the sixth century CE, and in length from one-line texts
containing only a single name to the 136-line inscription of King
ʾAbrehā from the dam at Mārib. The inscriptions cover a wide range of
themes, recording such things as dedications to deities, construction
and irrigation projects, and military campaigns. Regrettably, the
conditions in which the squeezes were kept over the years in the
National Library’s and Academy’s archive have been far from optimal, and
many have been damaged by water and mildew, or else pressed flat by the
weight of other squeezes piled on top.
Eduard Glaser:
The approximately 2850 South Arabian squeezes – 700 of them are
scanned within this project - are the work of the Austrian Semitist and
explorer Eduard Glaser (1855-1908). Glaser undertook four expeditions,
which led him to the region northwest of Ṣanʿāʾ, the region west and
southwest of Ṣanʿāʾ, and the area between Ṣanʿāʾ and Mārib and from
Ṣanʿāʾ to Aden.
The AWOL Index: The bibliographic data presented herein has been programmatically extracted from the content of AWOL - The Ancient World Online (ISSN 2156-2253) and formatted in accordance with a structured data model.
AWOL is a project of Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University
AWOL began with a series of entries under the heading AWOL on the Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog. I moved it to its own space here beginning in 2009.
The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.
The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.
AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.
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