South Arabian Long-Distance Trade in Antiquity : "Out of Arabia"

South Arabia is one of the least known parts of the Near East. It is primarily due to its remoteness, coupled with the difficulty of access, that South Arabia remains so under-explored. In pre-Islamic times, however, it was well-connected to the rest of the world. Due to its location at the crossroads of caravan and maritime routes, pre-Islamic South Arabia linked the Near East with Africa and the Mediterranean with India. The region is unique in that it has a written history extending as far back as the early first millennium BCE—a far longer history than that of any other part of the Arabian Peninsula. The papers collected in this volume make a number of important contributions to the study of the history and languages of ancient South Arabia, as well as the history of South Arabian studies, and will be of interest to scholars and laypeople alike. Contents Prologue Introduction 1 South Arabia, the Arabs, and the East Africa Trade in Pre-Islamic Times • George Hatke 2 Kaleb Ǝlla Aṣbǝḥa, the Holiness • Jean-François Faü 3 The Role of Adummatu among the Early Arabian Trade Routes at the Dawn of the Southern Arabian Cultures • Romolo Loreto 4 What was the South Arabian Impact on the Development of Ethiopian Margins in Antiquity? Evolution of Settlement Patterns in the Wakarida Region from pre-Aksumite to Late Aksumite Periods • Anne Benoist, Iwona Gajda, Jérémie Schiettecatte, Ninon Blond 5 Salt Routes in South Arabia and Around the Red SeaJean-Francois Breton 6 Seal Impressions on South Arabian Jars from Sumhuram (Khor Rori) • Giulia Buono 7 The Contacts of Sumhuram with the Eastern Arabia and the Persian Gulf • Cleto Carbonara 8 The Orientations of Eduard Glaser. Hypothesis on Positions, Motivations and Movements of a European Scholar in the MENA Region (1880-1888) • Enrico Floriddia 9 Hayim Habshush - The Unknown Guide of European Researchers in Yemen • Elisabeth Monamy 10 Notes on the South Arabian Occupation of Inqitat • Silvia Lischi 11 Abraha’s Cathedral: Change and Continuity of a Sacred Place • Werner Daum 12 The Quantity of the Vowel in the Sabaic Word for God (ʾl): Evidence from Arabic and Greek Sources • Imar Y. Koutchoukali 13 News about Names – On the Use of Abbreviations in Ancient South Arabian Filiation • Anne Multhoff 14 The South Arabian Zabūr Inscriptions from Maqwala, near Ṣanʿāʾ, Yemen • Peter Stein, Sarah Rijziger 15 A New Form of Cardinal Numerals Attested in Hadramitic • Serge Frantsouzoff 16 Trade Connections in 1st Millennium CE - South Arabia and Ethiopia as Indicated by Material Culture • Sarah Japp 17 Pre-Aksumite Pottery in the Northern Horn of Africa and its Indication of interregional Contacts • Marlene Köster 18 Les voyages de la reine Saba dans la tradition architecturale médiévale de l’occident chrétien • Christian Darles 19 The Pilgrimage to the Awām-Temple/Maḥram Bilqīs Maʾrib, Yemen • Mohammed Maraqten 20 Gold from Arabia for the Gods and Monarchs of Assyria • Diana Pickworth