Caravan kingdoms : Yemen and the ancient incense trade
| Parallelsachtitel: |
Yemen and the ancient incense trade |
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| Körperschaft: |
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)
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| Weitere Verfasser: |
Gunter, Ann Clyburn, 1951-
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Washington, D.C. :
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution,
2005.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xvii, 181 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 26 cm. |
| Schlagworte: | |
| iDAI.gazetteer: |
Jabal al-ʿAwd Jemen Barʾān (Māʾrib) Oase Marib Awam-Tempel und Friedhof Maḥram Bilqīs (Māʾrib) Ṣirwāḥ Persischer Golf Asia |
| Inhalte/Bestandteile: | 2 Datensätze |
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Table of contents |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Director's foreword and acknowledgments
- Minister's foreword and Arabic translation
- Sponsor's foreword and Arabic translation
- Chronology
- History, chronology, and archaeology
- The dawn of history in Yemen's interior / Alessandro de Maigret
- New research at the Sabaean city and oasis of Sirwah / Iris Gerlach
- An early Himyarite mountain settlement on Jabal al-Awd / Holger Hitgen
- Religion and funerary practices / Alexander Sima
- The Awwam temple (Mahram Bilqis) / Merilyn Phillips Hodgson
- Recent epigraphic discoveries at the Awwam temple / Mohammed Maraqten
- Conservation of the Almaqah temple of Baran / Burkhard Vogt
- Death and funerary practices / Burkhard Vogt
- The cemetery of the Awwam temple / Iris Gerlach
- Images: gods, humans, and animals / Sabina Antonini
- Trade and technology
- Trade, incense, and perfume / Nigel Groom
- The beginnings of irrigation / Ueli Brunner
- New research on the great dam at Marib / Burkhard Vogt
- Bibliography of works cited
- Credits
- Index.
