[First posted in AWOL 15 July 2019, updated 7 June 2026]
Showing posts with label Yemen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yemen. Show all posts
Sunday, June 7, 2026
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
Open Access Monograph Series: Archäologische Berichte aus dem Yemen
[First posted in AWOL 2 Maech 2012, updated 15 April 2026]
Archäologische Berichte aus dem Yemen in AMAR
Archäologische Berichte aus dem Yemen. Bd. 11
Publication: Archive of Mesopotamian Archaeological Reports (AMAR)
DownloadDate: 01/2007
Archäologische Berichte aus dem Yemen. Bd. 9
Publication: Archive of Mesopotamian Archaeological Reports (AMAR)
DownloadDate: 01/2002
Archäologische Berichte aus dem Yemen. Bd. 7: Antike Technologie: die sabäische Wasserwirtschaft von Mārib. Teil 3
Publication: Archive of Mesopotamian Archaeological Reports (AMAR)
DownloadDate: 01/1995
Archäologische Berichte aus dem Yemen. Bd. 10: Rencontres Sabéennes 6
Publication: Archive of Mesopotamian Archaeological Reports (AMAR)
DownloadDate: 01/2005
Archäologische Berichte aus dem Yemen. Bd. 2: Die Erforschung der antiken Oase von Mārib mit Hilfe geomorphologischer Untersuchungsmethoden
Publication: Archive of Mesopotamian Archaeological Reports (AMAR)
DownloadDate: 01/1983
Archäologische Berichte aus dem Yemen. Bd. 43
Publication: Archive of Mesopotamian Archaeological Reports (AMAR)
DownloadDate: 01/1987
Archäologische Berichte aus dem Yemen. Bd. 8: Les fortifications d'Arabie méridionale du 7e au 1er siècle avant notre ère
Publication: Archive of Mesopotamian Archaeological Reports (AMAR)
DownloadDate: 01/1994
Archäologische Berichte aus dem Yemen. Bd. 12: Maʻlayba et l'âge du bronze du Yémen
Publication: Archive of Mesopotamian Archaeological Reports (AMAR)
DownloadDate: 01/2007
Archäologische Berichte aus dem Yemen. Bd. 6: Antike Technologie: die sabäische Wasserwirtschaft von Mārib. Teil 2
Publication: Archive of Mesopotamian Archaeological Reports (AMAR)
DownloadDate: 01/1993
Archäologische Berichte aus dem Yemen. Bd. 5: Antike Technologie: die sabäische Wasserwirtschaft von Mārib. Teil 1
Publication: Archive of Mesopotamian Archaeological Reports (AMAR)
DownloadDate: 01/1991
Archäologische Berichte aus dem Yemen. Bd. 4
Publication: Archive of Mesopotamian Archaeological Reports (AMAR)
Download
Monday, May 30, 2022
DASI: Digital Archive for the Study of pre-Islamic Arabian Inscriptions
[First posted in AWOL 31 January 2013. Updated when the site relaunched 30 May 2022]
DASI: Digital Archive for the Study of pre-Islamic Arabian Inscriptions
DASI: Digital Archive for the Study of pre-Islamic Arabian Inscriptions
DASI seeks to gather all known pre-Islamic Arabian epigraphic material into a comprehensive online database, with the aim to make available to specialists and to the broader public a wide array of documents often underestimated because of their difficulty of access.
By means of a digitization process through a hybrid data entry/xml system, DASI gives access at present to more than 8,400 Ancient South Arabian inscriptions and 600 more anepigraphic objects, for the most part recorded by the University of Pisa team under the direction of Alessandra Avanzini. Thanks to the collaboration with other major European centres for the study of the Arabian Peninsula, also parts of the corpora of the Ancient North Arabian inscriptions (supervision by Mr. M.C.A. Macdonald, University of Oxford), Nabataean inscriptions (supervision by Dr. Laila Nehmé, UMR 8167, CNRS-Paris) and other Aramaic inscriptions (soon available, under the supervision by Dr. Maria Gorea, Université de Paris VIII) have been digitized.
DASI project was funded by the European Community within the Seventh Framework Programme “Ideas”, through an ERC – Advanced Grant awarded to Prof. Alessandra Avanzini at the University of Pisa (2011-2016). The Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, additional participant of the project, was responsible for the technical development of the archive, which is now maintained at the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Rome.
Projects
Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions
The ASA (Ancient South Arabian) corpus is one of the most interesting collections of epigraphic documents of the Semitic world, first and foremost for its vastness. With its over 15,000 inscriptions, it is the first-hand, written documentation of the culture that flourished in South Arabia from the late second millennium BC to the sixth century AD. At present, CSAI contains a collection of some 8,400 texts, for the most part digitized by the team of the University of Pisa under the direction of A. Avanzini.
Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia
The Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia (OCIANA) is a project of the Khalili Research Centre of the University of Oxford, directed by J. Johns and M.C.A. Macdonald. It aims to present an easily updatable, online edition of all known Ancient North Arabian inscriptions: Taymanitic, Dadanitic, Hasaitic, Safaitic, Hismaic and Thamudic.
Corpus of Aramaic Inscriptions
The Corpus of Aramaic inscriptions on DASI is composed of inscriptions found in Taymāʾ and its region and in the Gulf in the Achaemenid and post-Achaemenid periods. The corpus of Aramaic inscriptions is under the supervision of Maria Gorea (Université Paris VIII).
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.
Saturday, March 28, 2020
CSAI: Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions
[First posted in AWOL 4 October 2010, updated (new URLS) 28 March 20120]
CSAI: Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions
CSAI: Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions
The ASA (Ancient South Arabian) corpus is one of the most interesting collections of epigraphic documents of the Semitic world, first and foremost for its vastness. With its over 15,000 inscriptions, it is the first-hand, written documentation of the culture that flourished in South Arabia from the late second millennium BC to the sixth century AD. At present, CSAI contains a collection of some 8,150 texts digitized by the team of the University of Pisa under the direction of A. Avanzini.
CORPORA BY LANGUAGE\
Corpus of Ḥaḍramitic Inscriptions
The collection includes about 900 inscriptions which date from between the 7th century BC and the end of the 3rd century AD. After an early period of formation characterised by a strong Sabaean cultural and linguistic influence, around the 5th-4th century Ḥaḍramawt became a kingdom with its own political importance. Its main activity was trading in incense, which grew in various regions of the country.
Corpus of Minaic Inscriptions
The corpus of the Minaic inscriptions is composed by almost 1,400 texts, gathering all the epigraphic texts left in Minaic (elsewhere called Madhabaic) language. These come from the Jawf valley in northern Yemen (Corpus of Central Minaic inscriptions), but also from outside South Arabia, as the Minaean traders visited and settled in other regions and sites of the Arabian Peninsula and the Near East (Corpus of Marginal Minaic inscriptions).
Corpus of Qatabanic Inscriptions
The Corpus of Qatabanic inscriptions comprises in total more than 1,800 texts. It has been divided into three linguistic varieties: beside the inscriptions of the Central Qatabanic, the two small corpora of Marginal Qatabanic and Awsanite inscriptions has been created, because these documentations show several linguistic and cultural features that distinguish them from the Qatabanic language of the mainland.
Corpus of Sabaic Inscriptions (work in progress)
The Corpus of Sabaic inscriptions is the largest linguistic corpus of South Arabian texts. To date, of the approximately 5,000 Sabaic inscriptions, more than two thirds have been published in DASI. This corpus is divided into three major historical linguistic periods: early, middle and late. We have also identified a number of regional varieties such as the Corpus of Early Sabaic inscriptions from Ethiopia (that is being compiled) and - in the Middle phase - the Central, Northern and Southern Sabaic.
Corpus of Undefined Ancient South Arabian Language inscriptions (work in progress)
This corpus collects all the South Arabian texts which cannot be assigned to any specific language, because they convey no information about their linguistic provenance, nor on their geographic or chronological setting. The majority of them are fragmentary or simply onomastic texts.CORPORA BY SCRIPT TYPOLOGY
Corpus of Ancient South Arabian Minuscule texts (work in progress)
This is a small corpus, comprising some 40 texts, written in a new script and on a different support than the inscriptions in monumental writing engraved on stone, bronze or rocks. The first two wooden sticks texts were discovered at the beginning of the 1970's, during clandestine excavations in as-Sawdāʾ. The scholar Mahmoud al-Ghul was the first to partially decipher these new documents.COLLECTIONS BY DEPOSIT
Collection of the objects from the European museums
Since the beginning of the nineteenth century, the political presence and scientific expeditions of Europeans in the Arabian Peninsula inaugurated the establishment of European private and public collections of ancient South Arabian material, which constantly increased during the following decades.
Collection of the objects from the USA museums
The Collection of the objects from the USA museums in DASI gathers the South Arabian antiquities housed in USA museums and private collections.
Collection of the objects from the Yemeni museums
The digital cataloguing of the South Arabian inscriptions and artefacts housed in the Yemeni museums is one of the activities of the project CASIS, funded by the Italian Ministry for the University and Research for the years 2007-2010.
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
News: Open access for fascinating South-Arabian ‘squeezes’ from the Glaser Collection
Copies of several hundred open access South-Arabian stone inscriptions have been made available in Europeana Collections via Kulturpool by the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Guest blog by Petra Aigner, leader of a project titled 'Pilot-3D-Digitizing of Rare Ancient South Arabian Squeezes, 19th Century Glaser Collection'.
The collection of the Austrian scholar and explorer Eduard Glaser (1855-1908) was acquired for a large sum of money in 1910 by the Academy of Sciences in Vienna. The epigrapher and specialist in the South-Arabian languages collected a huge amount of medieval Arabic manuscripts and stone inscriptions that are now spread all over Europe. He also collected ‘squeezes’ (a kind of copy on paper) of the non-transportable ones, as well as photographs, glass-negatives, diaries, and notes of historical importance. The Academy owns the latter precious documents of the 1880s and 1890s and through two projects is digitally preserving and scientifically analysing them. This is another step towards the integration of the history and culture of South Arabia within the field of ancient Near Eastern studies and will help to give a fuller historical background of the early first millennium BCE till the rise of Islam.
Eduard Glaser collected these inscriptions during four expeditions (1882-1884, 1885-1886, 1887-1888, 1892-1894) to South Arabia - now largely the Republic of Yemen. Most of the squeezes are currently in a very poor state, while the original inscriptions are in many cases damaged and are (given Yemen’s political instability) inaccessible anyway. The preservation of this valuable epigraphic corpus will amount to the preservation of a significant part of ancient Yemen’s history and culture and, more broadly speaking, the preservation of an often overlooked part of the Semitic-speaking Near East. The inscriptions are written in Ḥaḍramitic, Quatabānic, Minaic, and Sabaic languages of Ancient South Arabia. The time range is from 800 BCE-600 CE.
Almost 500 items from the Glaser Collection were transferred to Europeana Collections by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Library, Archive & Collections (BAS:IS). The scans are available for use under an open licence.
George Hatke (Austrian Academy of Sciences, University of Vienna) is responsible for all transcriptions of the texts preserved in the squeezes, together with the translations and commentary. These remain intellectual property of the author. Please contact George.hatke@univie.ac.at
Friday, March 16, 2018
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
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...
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Open Access Book: Art rupestre et peuplements préhistoriques au Yémen
Art rupestre et peuplements préhistoriques au Yémen
…Art rupestre et peuplements historiques au Yémen fait le point sur l'état actuel des connaissances en ce domaine.
À l'inventaire iconographique de l'art rupestre préhistorique des régions de Saada et de Radā‘, établi par Madiha Rachad, s'est établie une nouvelle découverte dans la région d'al-Dalī‘, relevée par une équipe dirigée par Frank Braemer. Ainsi cet ouvrage révèle-t-il un remarquable ensemble gravé et peint de représentations d'animaux, ainsi que des figurations humaines et de...
Lire la suite
Catalogue
La région de Saada
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Posts
Stumble It!
