Monday, January 9, 2023

Taymāʾ II: Catalogue of the Inscriptions Discovered in the Saudi-German Excavations at Taymāʾ 2004–2015

 Taymāʾ. Multidisciplinary Series on the Results of the Saudi-German Archaeological Project

Taymāʾ II is a Catalogue which contains all the inscriptions discovered during the 24 seasons of the Saudi- German excavations at Taymāʾ from 2004–15 which were funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The 113 objects carry inscriptions in different languages and scripts, illustrating the linguistic diversity of the oasis through time. Although the majority are fragmentary, they provide an important source for the history of the oasis in ancient and mediaeval times.

The Babylonian cuneiform inscriptions in this volume confirm for the first time the ten-year sojourn at Taymāʾ of the last Babylonian king Nabû-na’id (556–539 BC). In addition, Imperial Aramaic inscriptions dated by the reigns of Lihyanite kings, based at Dadan (modern al-ʿUlā), reveal for the first time that they ruled Taymāʾ at a period in the second half of the first millennium BC.

As well as editing the volume, Michael C. A. Macdonald edited the Imperial Aramaic inscriptions found from 2010–15, plus those in the form of the Aramaic script which developed in Taymāʾ, and the Nabataean, Dadanitic, and Taymanitic texts. In addition, Hanspeter Schaudig edited the cuneiform inscriptions; Peter Stein, the Imperial Aramaic texts found from 2004–09; and Frédéric Imbert, the Arabic inscriptions. Arnulf Hausleiter and Francelin Tourtet provided archaeological contributions, while Martina Trognitz curated the virtual edition of many of the texts recorded by RTI. The indexes contain the words and names from all known texts from the oasis, including those in the Taymāʾ Museum and other collections which will be published as Taymāʾ III.

Schlagworte:

Saudi-Arabia, Taymāʾ, Cuneiform Inscriptions, Aramaic Inscriptions, 1st Millennium BCE

Kapitel

  • Foreword
    Abdullah A. Alzahrani
  • Preface by the Series Editors
    Arnulf Hausleiter, Ricardo Eichmann, Muhammad al-Najem
  • Introduction
    Michael C. A. Macdonald
  • Inscription Sigla, Editorial Symbols, and Dimensions
    Michael C. A. Macdonald, Muhammad al-Najem
  • THE CATALOGUE
  • Section 1. Cuneiform Texts from the Saudi-German Excavations at Taymāʾ Seasons 2004–2015
    Hanspeter Schaudig
  • Section 2: Die reichsaramäischen Inschriften der Kampagnen 2005–2009 aus Taymāʾ
    Peter Stein
  • Section 3: The Imperial Aramaic Inscriptions found in the 2010–2015 Seasons
    Michael C. A. Macdonald
  • Section 4: Texts in three different forms of the Aramaic script
    Michael C. A. Macdonald
  • On the iconography of the ‘Great Nephesh’ TA 10277 from Taymāʾ
    Arnulf Hausleiter
  • Section 5: The Taymāʾ Aramaic inscriptions
    Michael C. A. Macdonald
  • Section 6: The Nabataean inscriptions
    Michael C. A. Macdonald
  • Section 7: The Dadanitic inscriptions
    Michael C. A. Macdonald
  • Section 8: Taymanitic
    Michael C. A. Macdonald
  • Section 9: The Arabic inscriptions from the Saudi-German excavations at Taymāʾ 2004–2015
    Frédéric Imbert
  • Section 10: Queries
    Michael C. A. Macdonald
  • APPENDIXES
  • Appendix A. Gravestones of Men and Women at Taymāʾ
    Michael C. A. Macdonald
  • Appendix B. Eskoubi 1999, no. 272
    Michael C. A. Macdonald
  • Appendix C. On the publication of inscriptions from the Saudi-German excavations at Taymāʾ by means of Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI )
    Martina Trognitz
  • COMBINED INDEXES OF WORDS AND NAMES IN THE INSCRIPTIONS IN THIS CATALOGUE AND THE CATALOGUE OF INSCRIPTIONS IN THE TAYMĀʾ MUSEUM AND OTHER COLLECTIONS (TAYMĀʾ III)
  • Introduction
    Michael C. A. Macdonald
  • Index of Words and Names in the Akkadian Inscriptions
    Hanspeter Schaudig
  • Index of Words in the Imperial Aramaic, Taymāʾ Aramaic, and Nabataean Inscriptions
    Michael C. A. Macdonald
  • Index of Words in the Dadanitic and Taymanitic Inscriptions
    Michael C. A. Macdonald
  • Index of Words in the Minaic Inscription
    Peter Stein
  • Index of Words and Names in the Arabic Inscriptions
    Frédéric Imbert
  • LISTS OF THE INSCRIPTIONS
  • List of the Inscriptions Found in the Saudi-German Excavations at Taymāʾ, by Registration Number
    Michael C. A. Macdonald
  • Concordance of Taymāʾ Museum Registration Numbers with Numbers in the Catalogue of Inscriptions in the Taymāʾ Museum and Other Collections (Taymāʾ III)
    Michael C. A. Macdonald
  • List of the Inscriptions by Script
    Michael C. A. Macdonald
  • List of the Inscriptions by Type
    Michael C. A. Macdonald
  • List of the Dated Inscriptions from Taymāʾ
    Michael C. A. Macdonald
  • SIGLA
  • REFERENCES

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