OCIANA: Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

[First posted in AWOL  15 November 2015, updated 9 December 2024]

 
OCIANA: Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia

 

The Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia [OCIANA] aims to help transform our knowledge of the history, languages and cultures of ancient Arabia by creating a digital corpus of all known Ancient North Arabian inscriptions in North and Central Arabia, and elsewhere. For each inscription, it provides a reading the text in roman transliteration, together with a translation in English, references to earlier readings, commentary where necessary, bibliography, and all known information about the inscription (provenance, relationship to other texts or to rock drawings and/or symbols, structures, etc.). Photographs (when available) and/or facsimiles of each text also appear on each record and are downloadable free at publishable resolutions whenever the original is good enough. The Corpus is constantly updated as new discoveries are made and is fully searchable for names, words, grammatical features and subjects, as well as genealogies, narratives and prayers.

OCIANA grew out of the ‘Safaitic Database’ which was created in 1994 by Michael C.A. Macdonald, Laïla Nehmé, and the late Geraldine King, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. It was then expanded into the first version of OCIANA from 2013 to 2017 by Daniel Burt, Michael C.A. Macdonald, Ali Al-Manaser, and María del Carmen Hidalgo-Chacón Díez, at the Khalili Research Centre, University of Oxford, funded by a generous three-year grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council of Great Britain. The present version, launched in September 2024, has been completely revised with a new structure by The Ohio State University’s Digital Lab for Ancient Textual Objects (DLATO). We are extremely grateful to Alison Furlong, Ahmad Al-Jallad, James D. Moore, Dustin Perznowski, and Michael Hardesty who have achieved this and to all those who have worked on OCIANA and its predecessors over the last thirty years and the bodies which have funded it so generously.

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Nabataean: Corpus of Nabataean Inscriptions

 [First posted in AWOL 18 April 2019, updated 11 June 2023]

Nabataean: Corpus of Nabataean Inscriptions

The Corpus of Nabataean inscriptions on DASI has been accomplished thanks to the agreement with the CNRS laboratory UMR 8167 – Mondes Sémitiques, under the scientific supervision of L. Nehmé. 

The first step of the project concerns a selection of Nabataean inscriptions and graffiti from various regions of the Nabataean Kingdom, from southern Syria to north Arabia, which will be entered in the database. These will include, in addition to the tomb inscriptions from Hegra, important texts from Petra and the Hawran (epitaphs, dedications, etc.). Since 90% of the Nabataean inscriptions are graffiti, a selection of those will also be entered in the database so that they are represented.

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Open Access Journal: Bulletin of the British Foundation For the Study of Arabia

[First posted in AWOL 1 November 2009. Updated 24 Novermber 2021]

Bulletin of the British Foundation For the Study of Arabia
ISSN: 1361-9144
ISSN: 2050-2036

The BFSA publishes an annual bulletin (formerly the Bulletin of the Society for Arabian Studies) in the spring giving information on current research, publications, field work, conferences and events in the Arabian peninsula in fields ranging from archaeology and history to natural history and the environment. It also carries feature articles and book reviews.

Submissions for short notices of ongoing or forthcoming research are welcome, as is information on interesting conferences, exhibitions and events relating to the study of the Arabian Peninsula.

 Notices are intended to raise awareness of the range and scope of current research in the Arabian Peninsula. They should be short abstracts or summaries, between 300- 700 words, followed by bibliographic references to recent publications and links to relevant department or project websites. Photographs would be welcome, too, and should be at least 300 dpi; please indicate the copyright in each case. Research notices published by the Bulletin constitute an excellent means to raise the profile of your research amongst peers and provides a platform for cross-disciplinary collaboration. Email your contribution to current_research@thebfsa.org.

Current and back issues can be purchased at the Seminar for Arabian Studies in July each year or from the BFSA (contact@thebfsa.org). Printed back-copies of the Bulletin are £5.00 each. Previous issues may also be downloaded free of charge in pdf format by clicking on the cover images below.

The 2020 issue is available to download here as a compressed pdf.

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Open Access Journal: Arabian Epigraphic Notes: An Open Access Online Journal on Arabian Epigraphy

 [First posted in AWOL 4 January 2016, updated 25 September 2020]

Arabian Epigraphic Notes: An Open Access Online Journal on Arabian Epigraphy

ISSN: 2451-8875

The Arabian Peninsula contains one of the richest epigraphic landscapes in the Old World, and new texts are being discovered with every expedition to its deserts and oases. Arabian Epigraphic Notes is a forum for the publication of these epigraphic finds, and for the discussion of relevant historical and linguistic issues. The Arabian Peninsula is broadly defined as including the landmass between the Red Sea and the Arabo-Persian gulf, and stretching northward into the Syrian Desert, Jordan, and adjacent cultural areas. In order to keep up with the rapid pace of discoveries, our online format will provide authors the ability to publish immediately following peer-review, and will make available for download high resolution, color photographs. The open-access format will ensure as wide a readership as possible.

AEN invites original articles and short communications dealing with the Ancient South Arabian, Ancient North Arabian, Nabataean (and Aramaic in general), Arabic, and Greek epigraphy from the Arabian Peninsula, but also from other areas so long as the link to Arabia and its cultures is clear. The language of the Journal is English. Review articles will also be considered.

Arabian Epigraphic Notes is essential reading for all interested in the languages and scripts of the ancient Near East, and of interest to students of Northwest Semitic epigraphy, Cuneiform studies, Egyptology, and classical antiquity. We hope that the journal will contribute to our understanding of the languages and cultures of Arabia, from their earliest attestations until the contemporary period. It is hoped that the journal’s accessibility will further help integrate the epigraphy and languages of ancient Arabia into the broader field of Semitic Philology.

• Volume 1 (2015) PDF
  1. M.C.A. Macdonald
     On the uses of writing in ancient Arabia and the role of palaeography in studying them
  2. A. Al-Jallad
     A. al-Manaser
     New Epigraphica from Jordan I: a pre-Islamic Arabic inscription in Greek letters and a Greek inscription from north-eastern Jordan
  3. S. Abbadi
     New evidence of a conflict between the Nabataeans and the Ḥwlt in a Safaitic inscription from Wadi Ram
  4. A. Al-Housan
     A selection of Safaitic inscriptions from the Mafraq Antiquities Office and Museum
  5. L. Nehmé
     Strategoi in the Nabataean Kingdom : a reflection of Central Places?
  6. J. Lundberg
     Prepositional Phrases in the Dadanitic Inscriptions
• Volume 2 (2016) PDF
  1. S. Rijziger
     The Kāniṭ Museum Collection
  2. P.W. Stokes
     A new and unique Thamudic inscription from northeast Jordan
  3. S. Abbadi
     A. al-Manaser
     Remarks on the etymon trḥ in the Safaitic inscriptions
  4. A. Al-Jallad
     A. al-Manaser
     New Epigraphica from Jordan II: three Safaitic-Greek partial bilingual inscriptions
  5. F. Kootstra
     The Language of the Taymanitic Inscriptions & its Classification
  6. H. Dirbas
     ʿAbd al-Asad and the Question of a Lion-God in the pre-Islamic Tradition: An Onomastic Study
  7. Z. Al-Salameen
     A New Dedicatory Nabataean Inscription Dated to AD 53
  8. H. Hayajneh
     Dadanitic Graffiti from Taymāʾ Region Revisited
• Volume 3 (2017) PDF
  1. Z. Al-Salameen
     Y. Shdaifat
     A New Nabataean Inscription from the Moab Plateau
  2. S.A. Al-Zaidi
     Betwixt and Between the Bactrian Camel and the Dromedary: The Semantic Evolution of the Lexeme udru during the 11th to 8th Centuries BCE
  3. A. Al-Housan
     A selection of Safaitic inscriptions from the Mafraq Antiquities Office and Museum II
  4. M. Van Putten
     The development of the triphthongs in Quranic and Classical Arabic
  5. A. Al-Jallad
     Marginal notes on and additions to An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions (SSLL 80; Leiden: Brill, 2015), with a supplement to the dictionary
  6. M. Arbach
     La datation paléographique des inscriptions sudarabiques du Ier millénaire avant J.-C. : méthode et limites
  7. M.I. Ababneh
     A new Safaitic square-script inscription with a unique expression of ‘longing’
  8. L. Nehmé
     New dated inscriptions (Nabataean and pre-Islamic Arabic) from a site near al-Jawf, ancient Dūmah, Saudi Arabia
• Volume 4 (2018)
  1. A. al-Manaser
     J. Norris
     The Nabataeans against the Ḥwlt – once again. An edition of new Safaitic inscriptions from the Jordanian Ḥarrah desert
  2. A. Al-Housan
     An Islamic inscription from the Al-Mafraq Antiquities Office and Museum
  3. M. Shaddel
     Traces of the hamza in the Early Arabic Script: The Inscriptions of Zuhayr, Qays the Scribe, and ‘Yazīd the King’
  4. J.-L. Le Quellec
     F. Duquesnoy
     V. Charpentier
     A. al-Mashani
     The Ẓufār painted Inscriptions in Oman: Epigraphy and New Technologies
  5. A. al-Manaser
     L. Ellis
     New Islamic inscriptions from the Jordanian Badia region
  6. Z. Al-Salameen
     M. Hazza
     New Nabataean Inscriptions from Umm al-Jimāl
  7. S.A. al-Theeb
     Nabataean inscriptions from southwest of Taymāʾ, Saudi Arabia

Authors

• Ababneh, M.I.
• Abbadi, S.
• Al-Housan, A.
• Al-Jallad, A.
• al-Manaser, A.
• al-Mashani, A.
• Al-Salameen, Z.
• Al-Zaidi, S.A.
• Arbach, M.
• Charpentier, V.
• Dirbas, H.
• Duquesnoy, F.
• Hayajneh, H.
• Kootstra, F.
• Ellis, L.
• Le Quellec, J.-L.
• Lundberg, J.
• Hazza, M.
• Macdonald, M.C.A.
• Nehmé, L.
• Norris, J.
• Rijziger, S.
• al-Theeb, S.A.
• Shaddel, M.
• Shdaifat, Y.
• Stokes, P.W.
• Van Putten, M.

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Taymāʾ I: Archaeological Exploration, Palaeoenvironment, Cultural Contacts

Taymāʾ I: Archaeological Exploration, Palaeoenvironment, Cultural Contacts

Authors

Arnulf Hausleiter (ed)

Ricardo Eichmann (ed)

Muhammad al-Najem (ed)

Arnulf Hausleiter; Ricardo Eichmann; Muhammad al-Najem; Ariel M. Bagg; Helmut Brückner; Michèle Dinies; Max Engel; Peter Frenzel; Andreas Ginau; Matthias Grottker; Benjamin Heemeier; Patrick Keilholz; Nicole Klasen; Harald Kürschner; Reinder Neef; Arno Patzelt; Martin Patzke; Anna Pint; Gunnar Sperveslage; Peter Voß; Kai Wellbrock

Synopsis

The present volume is the first of the publication series of the Saudi-German archaeological project and focuses on three fundamental aspects of research at Taymāʾ: the current archaeological exploration of the oasis is contextualised with previous and ongoing research within the region, while at the same time offering a first overview of the settlement history of the site, which may have started as early as more than 6000 years ago. New information on the palaeoenvironment has been provided by multiproxy-analysis of sediments from a palaeolake immediately north of the settlement. The results indicate an Early Holocene humid period in the region that is shorter than the so-called African Humid Period. The abrupt aridification at around 8 ka BP, known from other regions in the Near East, is also attested in north-western Arabia. The reconstruction of the past vegetation of the site and its surroundings demonstrates that oasis cultivation at Taymāʾ started during the 5th millennium BCE with grapes and figs, rather than with the date palm. According to hydrological investigations on water resources, groundwater aquifers provided the main source of local water supply. These were exploited through wells, some of which have been identified in the area of the ancient oasis. Finally, since the time of early travellers to Northwest Arabia evidence of cultural contacts has been observed in the records from the site, which had been occupied by the last Babylonian king, Nabonidus (556–539 BCE) for ten years. A historical-archaeological essay on Egypt and Arabia as well as a study on the ambiguous relationship between Assyria and Arabia – characterised by conflict and commerce – shed new light on the foreign relations of ancient Taymāʾ.

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• Foreword - Introduction - Preface

• The Archaeological Exploration of the Oasis of Taymāʾ

  Arnulf Hausleiter, Ricardo Eichmann

• Palaeoenvironmental Changes at Taymāʾ as Inferred from Sabkha Infill

  Max Engel, Nicole Klasen, Andreas Ginau, Martin Patzke, Anna Pint, Peter Frenzel, Helmut Brückner

• Taymāʾ Oasis (Saudi Arabia) and its Surroundings – a First Synthesis of the Flora, Vegetation, Natural Resources, and Floral History

  Harald Kürschner, Reinder Neef

• Early to Middle Holocene Vegetational Development, Climatic Conditions and Oasis Cultivation in Taymāʾ: First Results from Pollen Spectra out of a Sabkha

  Michèle Dinies, Reinder Neef, Harald Kürschner

• The Water Management of Taymāʾ and Other Ancient Oasis Settlements in the North-Western Arabian Peninsula – a Synthesis

  Kai Wellbrock, Peter Voß, Benjamin Heemeier, Patrick Keilholz, Arno Patzelt, Matthias Grottker

• Ägypten und Arabien

  Gunnar Sperveslage

• Untersuchungen zu den ‘arabischen’ Toponymen und zur Rezeption der ‘Araber’ in den historischen Quellen der Assyrer

  Ariel M. Bagg

Open Access Exhibition Catalogues and Museum Brochures from Arabia Antica

 [First posted in AWOL 31 August 2016, updated 16 March 2018]

Open Access Exhibition Catalogues and Museum Brochures from Arabia Antica

Insights into ancient South Arabia: the collection of the Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale "G. Tucci" in Rome

Irene Rossi and Alexia Pavan (with a contribution by Paola D'Amore) 2015, Dedizioni, 105 pp., ISBN 978-88-95613-24-6 The collection of ancient South Arabian objects from the Museo Nazionale d’Arte Orientale ‘Giuseppe Tucci’ has been growing larger since 1976 and includes four collections containing ceramics, sculptures, reliefs, architectural elements, inscriptions, bronze objects, terracotta figurines and coins. ...

Along the aroma and spice routes. The harbour of Sumhuram, its territory and the trade between the Mediterranean, Arabia and India

Alessandra Avanzini (ed.) 2011, MB VISION - BANDECCHI E VIVALDI, 127 pp., ISBN: 978-88-8341-476-3, 20 euros From 1996, the IMTO mission of the University of Pisa has been working on the site of Sumhuram, in the territory of Khor Rori (southern Oman), since ancient times a region famed for the excellence of the frankincense it produced. This volume coincide with the conclusion of a project funded by MIUR...

Art and technique in Yemen. The bronzes from the Museum of Baynun

Alessandra Avanzini (ed.) 2009, Bandecchi e Vivaldi, 131 pp., ISBN: 8883414411 This catalogue has been published on the occasion of the exhibition "Art and technique in Yemen. The bronzes from the Museum of Baynun", which took place at Pisa from May, 27th to June, 10th 2009. The exhibition was an initiative which is part of the Italy-Yemen cooperation project CASIS, whose aim...

Oman, the land of Sindbad the sailor

Alessandra Avanzini, Alexia Pavan and Michele Degli Esposti 2012, pp. 44 The exhibition that was set up in the Museo di S. Matteo - Pisa in 2012 intended to illustrate Oman by drewing connections between this distant, exotic land and more familiar things. The title of the catalogue suggests how closely the fortunes and the destiny of the country were linked to the sea...

The Museum of Baynun

Alessandra Avanzini and Alessia Prioletta 2010, pp. 24 The museum of Baynun is the largest museum of the Dhamar governorate in terms of number of objects and their artistic and historical importance. The museum, founded in 1990 by sheikh A. al-Huzeizi, collects the antiquities found in Baynun and the surrounding areas. More than 70 inscriptions,...

The Museums of Dhamar

Alessandra Avanzini and Alessia Prioletta 2010, pp. 24 This brochure includes a short guides of both the Regional and the University Museums of Aden, produced within the project CASIS. The Regional Museum is the main museum of the Dhamar governorate. It was built at Hirran, north of Dhamar city, in 2002. Its pre-Islamic collection comprises over...

The National Museum of Aden

Alessandra Avanzini and Alessia Prioletta 2010, 20 pp. The National Museum of Aden is located in a wonderful colonial building of “Qasr al-Sultan”, in the Crater. Founded in 1966, it is one of the greatest Yemeni museums for number of pieces and prestige. Its huge collection of antiquities had to comprise some 500 pieces, especially from the kingdoms...

ArchaeOman

ArchaeOman

ArchaeOman ist eine projektübergreifende Informationsplattform für den Fachbereich der Vorderasiatischen Archäologie mit dem Schwerpunkt Oman. Sie macht webbasierte Inhalte gleichermaßen der Wissenschaft wie auch der interessierten Öffentlichkeit zugänglich. Der Begriff ArchaeOman setzt sich aus zwei Komponenten zusammen. ‚Archaeo’ ist eine griechische Vorsilbe und steht für alt, und ,Oman’ drückt den regionalen Bezug zum Sultanat Oman auf der Arabischen Halbinsel aus.

ArchaeOman ist in erster Linie für den Zweck bestimmt, die bestehenden und geplanten wissenschaftlichen Publikationen (Artikel, Beiträge zu Sammelbänden und Monographien) durch digitale Inhalte zu ergänzen. Dabei handelt es sich vor allem um 3D-Modelle, Panoramen und WebGIS-Auftritte. Diese sollen nicht nur einen wichtigen Beitrag für die archäologische Forschung leisten, sondern auch der Nichtfachöffentlichkeit als wichtiges Anschauungsmaterial zur Verfügung stehen. Darüber hinaus wird allen Projekten eine kurze Zusammenfassung der Forschungsergebnisse vorangestellt.

Folgende Projekte werden präsentiert:
Bat (2010–2015), Al-Ayn (2010–2011), Al-Zebah (2011–2014), Al-Khubayb (2015), Muhaliyah (2016), Al-Khashbah (seit 2015) sowie die Nachnutzung von Gräbern (seit 2015).

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Open Access Journal: Arabian Humanities. International Journal of Archaeology and Social Sciences in the Arabian Peninsula

[First posted in AWOL 17 August 2013, updates 2 November 2017]

Arabian Humanities. International Journal of Archaeology and Social Sciences in the Arabian Peninsula
ISSN électronique: 2308-6122

Arabian Humanities s’inscrit dans la continuité des Chroniques yéménites, revue de valorisation des travaux menés au Centre Français d’Archéologie et de Sciences sociales de Sanaa (CEFAS) entre 1993 et 2013. Tout en garantissant l’accès aux numéros des Chroniques yéménites, elle en élargit le champ de compétence à l’ensemble de la péninsule Arabique, et se tourne résolument vers l’international.

Arabian Humanities est une revue à comité de lecture, multilingue (articles édités et publiés en français, anglais et arabe), qui couvre, à un rythme biannuel, l’ensemble des domaines des sciences humaines allant de la préhistoire jusqu’aux sociétés actuelles.

Construit autour d’un dossier thématique, chaque numéro comprend également des varia et des comptes rendus de lecture sur les publications les plus récentes portant sur la péninsule Arabique et paraissant en langues européennes et arabe.

Arabian Humanities is the continuation of the earlier Chroniques yéménites journal, published by the French Center for Archaeology and Social Sciences in Sanaa (CEFAS) from 1993. It broadens its scope to the entire Arabian Peninsula, and is now resolutely oriented towards international research networks.

Arabian Humanities is a peer-reviewed journal. It is multilingual (articles published in French, English or Arabic, with abstracts in the two other languages), and freely available on internet.

Arabian Humanities intends, through biennial issues, to cover all areas of the humanities from prehistory to contemporary societies in the Arabian Peninsula. Constructed around a specific theme, each issue will also include independent articles and book reviews on the latest publications on the Arabian Peninsula appearing in European languages and Arabic.

Derniers numéros

• 8 | 2017
  Le cheval dans la péninsule Arabique

Numéros en texte intégral

• 7 | 2016
  Transnationaliser la péninsule Arabique
• 6 | 2016
  Circulations dans la péninsule Arabique pendant la Première Guerre mondiale
• 5 | 2015
  Nouveaux accents de la poésie dialectale en péninsule Arabique
• 4 | 2015
  Le Printemps arabe dans la péninsule Arabique
• 3 | 2014
• 2 | 2013
  Villes et dynamiques urbaines en péninsule Arabique
• 1 | 2013
  Transformations dans le genre en péninsule Arabique

Chroniques yéménites

• 17 | 2012
• 16 | 2010
• 15 | 2008
• 14 | 2007
• 13 | 2006
• 12 | 2004
• 11 | 2003
• 10 | 2002
• 9 | 2001
• 8 | 2000
• 6-7 | 1999
• 4-5 | 1997
• 3 | 1995
• 2 | 1994
• 1 | 1993

Chroniques du manuscrit au Yémen

• 3 | 2007
  Chroniques du manuscrit au Yémen
• 2 | 2006
  Chroniques du manuscrit au Yémen
• 1 | 2006
  Chroniques du manuscrit au Yémen

Tous les numéros

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Arabian Rock Art Heritage: The Application of Advanced Imaging Technology to Saudi Arabian Rock Art

Arabian Rock Art Heritage: The Application of Advanced Imaging Technology to Saudi Arabian Rock Art

This Web site is designed to give scientists and the public an opportunity to explore rock art in the remote landscape of Saudi Arabia. Take a tour and learn about the ancient people who carved the petroglyphs and the animals they hunted and herded. We have chosen some exciting imaging techniques to best depict this dramatic art. Some of our Web pages are interactive, allowing you to zoom in on specific figures or navigate around an image (GigaPans), or change the lighting on an image to see more (RTIs).

You can go through the Web site in sequence or select one of the topics listed across the bar at the top and click on it.

The Arabian Peninsula is seen by much of the world as terra incognita, particularly concerning its ancient history. Yet, as research begins to penetrate deeper and the archaeological record is more fully documented, it is clear that this region has an extremely rich cultural heritage.

As more and more exploration is conducted, Saudi Arabia is emerging as one of the world’s leaders in rock art. New localities are being discovered with increasing frequency as scholars and laypersons alike become more aware of their importance. In the past three decades, hundreds of rock art sites have been recorded in Saudi Arabia.

Because of the remoteness and difficult access to many of the Saudi petroglyph sites, this Web site attempts to make high-resolution images of these ancient scenes available to scientists, art historians, and the public worldwide. We are committed to disseminating these data in order to accelerate the advancements of archaeology in Saudi Arabia and to educate the public about the rich cultural heritage of this region.

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• Library
• Acknowledgements

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• Stories in the Rocks
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Arabia Antica: History and Culture of Pre-Islamic Arabia

Arabia Antica: History and Culture of Pre-Islamic Arabia

Arabia Antica is the portal for Pre-Islamic Arabian studies conducted by the  University of Pisa Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del Sapere.

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Open Access Journal: Arabia Antica Newsletter

Arabia Antica Newsletter

 

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Open Access Journal: Saudi Aramco World

Saudi Aramco World

Saudi Aramco, the oil company born as an international enterprise 75 years ago, distributes Saudi Aramco World to increase cross-cultural understanding. The bimonthly magazine's goal is to broaden knowledge of the cultures, history and geography of the Arab and Muslim worlds and their connections with the West. Saudi Aramco World is distributed without charge, upon request, to interested readers worldwide.

In print, Saudi Aramco World is published six times a year: January/February (JF); March/April (MA); May/June (MJ); July/August (JA); September/October (SO) and November/December (ND). From its launch in 1949 until the May/June 2000 issue, the magazine's name was Aramco World. The July/August 2000 issue was the first to carry the name Saudi Aramco World.

Saudi Aramco World is published in Houston, Texas by Aramco Services Company, a subsidiary of Saudi Aramco. This website is updated following each issue of the print edition.

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Special Issue of BMSAES: Mariners and traders: Connections between the Red Sea littoral, Arabia and beyond

Mariners and traders: Connections between the Red Sea littoral, Arabia and beyond
BMSAES, Issue 18: August 2012

This issue of BMSAES contains the proceedings of the Annual International Egyptological Colloquium, entitled Mariners and traders: Connections between the Red Sea littoral, Arabia and beyond, and Rudolfo Fattovich’s Raymond and Beverley Sackler Foundation Distinguished Lecture in Egyptology, ‘Egypt’s trade with Punt: Recent discoveries on the Red Sea coast,' both held at The British Museum on 2 August 2011. 

Professor Fattovich’s contribution neatly summarizes a decade of extraordinary finds at Middle Kingdom Mersa Gawasis/Wadi Gawasis on Egypt’s Red Sea coast. The colloquium papers present other important, new fieldwork elucidating ancient maritime and over-land routes connecting Egypt to the Levant, East Africa, Arabia, Central Asia and India and dating from as early as the Old Kingdom through the Byzantine period. 

Julie Anderson, who organised the colloquium, guest-edited the volume. Editorial assistance was provided by Tifffany Chezum, Ruiha Smalley, Alice Springuel, Michaela Binder, Elisabeth R. O'Connell and especially Topy Fiske.

Elisabeth R. O’Connell

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Contents

Egypt’s trade with Punt: New discoveries on the Red Sea Coast
Rodolfo Fattovich
Glassware from Roman Egypt at Begram (Afghanistan) and the Red Sea trade
Rachel Mairs
From the sea to the deserts and back: New research in Eastern SudanAndrea Manzo
Ras Budran and the Old Kingdom trade in Red Sea shells and other exotica
Gregory Mumford
Ayn Sukhna and Wadi el-Jarf: Two newly discovered pharaonic harbours on the Suez Gulf
Pierre Tallet
Port communities and the Erythraean Sea tradeRoss I. Thomas
From the Roman Red Sea to beyond the Empire: Egyptian ports and their trading partners
Roberta Tomber
Building pharaoh’s ships: Cedar, incense and sailing the Great Green
Cheryl Ward
A preliminary assessment on the pottery assemblage from the port town of Adulis (Eritrea)
Chiara Zazzaro and Andrea Manzo

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