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This article reports on the excavations of a coastal site in Sharjah dating to the 5th millennium BC at which examples of paintedcUbaid pottery, probably of Mesopotamian origin, were found.

ISSN:0905-7196    

DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0471.1996.tb00082.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

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X‐ray powder diffraction analysis identified a concentration of green pigment in a shell from Tell Abraq as the copper mineral atacamite. The use of atacamite as a pigment in the ancient world is discusse

ISSN:0905-7196    

DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0471.1996.tb00083.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

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This article discusses the origin of three Semitic deities which are attested in the Aramaic inscriptions in the North Arabian city of Tayma'. These areSalm, SangilaandAšīmā.Together they comprise the pantheon of Taymā'. The etymology, identity and the attestation of these deities in Aramaic and other sources are investigated. After studying these three deities within their Semitic background, this paper suggests that these deities, which had been adopted by Arabs in Taymā', are of Aramaic origin and were introduced to North Arabia from North S

ISSN:0905-7196    

DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0471.1996.tb00084.x

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年代:1996

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The inscriptions involved here are displayed in al‐Sudiry's private museum in al‐Ǧawf. In this paper we have tried to analyze them, giving their personal names special attent

ISSN:0905-7196    

DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0471.1996.tb00085.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0905-7196    

DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0471.1996.tb00086.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

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This is the second article in a series of publications on the pre‐Islamic sites in Wâdî Hadramawt investigated by the Russian (former Soviet‐Yemeni Joint) Expedition in 1983–1994. Some of the objects from the 1981 Yemeni excavations at al‐Guraf, as well as two decorative stone slabs found there subsequently, are published here for the f

ISSN:0905-7196    

DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0471.1996.tb00087.x

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年代:1996

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The epigraphical documentation of Nashshān gives us some interesting data about the linguistic and cultural relationships between Saba and the other kingdoms at the beginning of South Arabian history

ISSN:0905-7196    

DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0471.1996.tb00088.x

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年代:1996

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The results of the 1993 and 1994 seasons by a Belgian team from Gent University at ed‐Dur in the Emirate of Umm al‐Qaiwain are presented. The excavations concentrated on area BS, where a total of 2650 m2were excavated. This large exposure provided a vast amount of material of the late 1st century BC and the 1st century AD. Only some rare objects (from different areas) are presen

ISSN:0905-7196    

DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0471.1996.tb00089.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

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Eight previously published (1) pre‐Islamic coins minted in Arabia were subjected to non‐destructive ion beam analysis by Proton Induced X‐Ray (PIXE) and Gamma‐Ray Emission (PIGME) at Lucas Heights. The results (2) were interpreted using Principal Components Analysis (PCA). The relative X‐ray intensities of fifteen elements, supplemented with additional L alpha lines for two of the elements, were extracted for this analysis. PCA (results appended) was first carried out on the whole dataset where the distinctive high iron and nickel composition of two coins (331 and 335) resulted in their position as outliers. A second analysis of the subset of silver coins showed the compositional similarity between four coins (44, 222, 226, 359) and distinguished two separate outliers. One of these (369) has a high lead and tin content while the other (354) has a greater proportion of elements present as impurities (?) including iron and nickel. The two outliers and the relatively homogenous compositions of the group of four coins suggest that three compositional types of silver coinage are represented in the dataset: 1. a relatively silver‐rich group of four coins; 2. silver coins debased with lead; and 3. silver coins debased with iron

ISSN:0905-7196    

DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0471.1996.tb00090.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

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Gravegoods comprising local and imported pottery together with iron arrowheads were ‘rescued’from a burial at al‐Khatt, U.A.E., in 1993. Their relation to the chronology established at Mleiha suggests that they date from the late 3rd to early 2nd centuries BC, a period as yet little known in the Emirate of Ras al‐

ISSN:0905-7196    

DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0471.1996.tb00091.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY