Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, Vol. 34 - 2004. Papers from the thirty-seventh meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held in London, 17-19 July 2003.

Some annotations, especially in the table of contents, otherwise good and clean. - Contents: Transliteration -- Summaries of the papers in this volume -- Peter J. Parr: John Dayton and the founding of the Seminar for Arabian Studies -- SOUTHERN ARABIA. -- Remy Crassard & Pierre Bodu: Pr�stoire du Hadramawt (Y�n) : nouvelles perspectives -- Burkhard Vogt: Towards a new dating of the great dam of Marib. Preliminary results of the 2002 fieldwork of the German Institute of Archaeology -- Norbert Nebes: A new 'Abraha inscription from the Great Dam of Marib -- Mohammed Maraqten: The processional road between Old Marib and the Awam temple in the light of a recently discovered inscription from Mahram Bilqis -- Peter Stein: A Sabaic proverb. The Sabaic minuscule inscription Mon.script.sab. 129 -- Anne Regourd & Noha Sadek: Nouvelles donn� sur la topographie de Zabid (Y�n) au dix-huiti� si�e -- Nancy Um: Eighteenth-century patronage in San'a': building for the new capital during the second century of the Qasimi imamate -- Mikhail Rodionov: Mashhad 'Ali revisited: documents from Hadramawt -- Ester Muchawsky-Schnapper: An exceptional type of Yemeni necklace from the beginning of the twentieth century as an example of introducing artistic novelty into a traditional craft -- CERAMICS IN YEMEN. TRADE IN THE RED SEA AND THE INDIAN OCEAN. -- William D. Glanzman: Beyond their borders: a common potting tradition and ceramic horizon within -- South Arabia during the later first millennium BC through the early first millennium AD -- Barbara Davidde, Roberto Petriaggi & David F. Williams: New data on the commercial trade of the harbour of Kane through the typological and petrographic study of the pottery -- Alexandra Porter: Amphora trade between South Arabia and East Africa in the first millennium BC: a re-examination of the evidence -- Roberta Tomber : Rome and South Arabia: new artefactual evidence from the Red Sea -- Carl Phillips, Fran�s Villeneuve & William Facey: A Latin inscription from South Arabia -- Anne Regourd: Trade on the Red Sea during the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods. The Quseir paper manuscript collection 1999-2003, first data -- SOUTH-EASTERN AND EASTERN ARABIA. -- Vincent Charpentier, Trihedral points: a new facet to the "Arabian Bifacial Tradition" ? -- Mark Beech, Heiko Kallweit & Peter Hellyer: New archaeological investigations at Abu Dhabi Airport, United Arab Emirates -- Heiko Kallweit: Lithics from the Emirates: the Abu Dhabi Airport sites -- J�rgen Schreiber & Jutta H�r: Archaeological survey at Tiwi and its hinterland (Central Oman) -- Caroline Cartwright: Reconstructing the use of coastal resources at Ra's al-Hadd, Oman, in the third millennium BC -- Ralph K. Pedersen: Traditional Arabian watercraft and the ark of the Gilgamesh epic: interpretations and realizations -- A. Benoist, V. Bernard, A. Hamel, F. Saint-Genez, J. Schiettecatte, M. Skorupka: L'Age du Fer �ithnah (Emirat de Fujairah) : campagnes 2001-2002 -- Tom Vosmer: Qalhat, an ancient port of Oman: results of the first mission -- H. Stewart Edgell, The myth of the "lost city of the Arabian sands" -- Valeria Fiorani Piacentini: The mercantile empire of the Tibis: economic predominance, political power, military subordination -- William & Fidelity Lancaster: with a technical report by Martin Bridge, Tree cores from Ra's al-Khaimah -- Birgit Mershen: Pots and tombs in Ibra', Oman. Investigations into the archaeological surface record of Islamic cemeteries and the related burial customs and funerary rituals -- Yaqoub Salim al-Busaidi: The protection and management of historic monuments in the Sultanate of Oman: the historic buildings of Oman -- Mashary A. al-Naim: The dynamics of a traditional Arab town: the case of Hofuf, Saudi Arabia -- ARABIC AND NABATAEAN. -- Fran�s de Blois: Qur'an IX:37 and CIH 547 -- Yosef Tobi: The orthography of pre-Saadianic Judaeo-Arabic compared with the orthography of the inscriptions of pre-Islamic Arabia -- Samia Na�: Le traitement syntaxique des relations inali�bles en arabe y�nite de San'a' -- Janet C.E. Watson: On the linguistic archaeology of San'ani Arabic -- Salah Said & M. al-Hamad: Three short Nabataean inscriptions from Umm al-Jimal -- List of the papers read at the thirty-seventh Seminar for Arabian Studies, London, 17-19 July 2003. ISBN 0953992357