Full Description
The Seminar for Arabian Studies has come a long way since 1968 when it was first convened, yet it remains the principal international academic forum for research on the Arabian Peninsula. This is clearly reflected in the ever-increasing number of researchers from all over the world who come each year to the three-day Seminar to present and discuss their latest research and fieldwork. Most of the papers published in this volume were presented at a Special Session of the fifty-first Seminar for Arabian Studies, held at the British Museum on 5 August 2017. Its subject was 'Languages, scripts, and their uses in ancient North Arabia' and it was held to celebrate the completion in the previous March of Phase 2 of the 'Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia' (OCIANA).
Contents
Introduction - by Michael C.A. Macdonald ; I. The use of languages and scripts in settled areas ; Towards a re-assessment of the Ancient North Arabian alphabets used in the oasis of al- Ula - by Michael C.A. Macdonald ; Scribal practices in contact: two Minaic/Dadanitic mixed texts - by Fokelien Kootstra ; 'Literacy in literate societies': the scribe in Nabataean and other Aramaic contexts - by John F. Healey ; The role of Aramaic on the Arabian Peninsula in the second half of the first millennium BC - by Peter Stein ; II. The use of languages and scripts among nomads: ; New research on the 'Thamudic' graffiti from the region of ima (Najran, Saudi Arabia) - by Alessia Prioletta with a note by Christian J. Robin ; A survey of the Ancient North Arabian inscriptions from the Dumat al-Jandal area (Saudi Arabia) - by Jerome Norris ; A preliminary investigation of an Ancient North Arabian invocation from the Madaba region of central Jordan - by Hani Hayajneh ; Understanding Safaitic inscriptions in their topographical context - by Ali Al-Manaser ; The earliest attestation of laysa and the implications for its etymology - by Ahmad Al-Jallad ; Papers read at the Special Session
