Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 50 2020

• Editors’ Foreword ; In Memoriam Jocelyn Cecilia Orchard, 1936–2019 ; Desert tombs: recent research into the Bronze Age and Iron Age cairn burials of Jebel Qurma, north-east Jordan – Peter M.M.G. Akkermans, Merel L. Brüning, Monique Arntz, Sarah A. Inskip & Keshia A.N. Akkermans ; On the nature of South Arabian influences in Ethiopia during the late first millennium BC: late pre-Aksumite settlement on the margins of the eastern Tigray plateau – Anne Benoist, Iwona Gajda, Steven Matthews, Jérémie Schiettecatte, Ninon Blond, Saskia Büchner & Pawel Wolf ; Pottery from the al-Zubārah suq – Agnieszka Magdalena Bystron ; The dawn of the Islamic era? The excavation of Yughbī in the Crowded Desert of Qatar – Jose C. Carvajal López, Kirk Roberts, Laura Morabito, Gareth Rees, Frank Stremke, Anke Marsh, David M. Freire-Lista, Robert Carter & Faiṣal ‘Abd Allāh al-Na‘īmī ; First discoveries of the Bāt/al-Arid mission (Sultanate of Oman) – Corinne Castel, Olivier Barge, Blandine Besnard, Tara Beuzen-Waller, Jacques Élie Brochier, Lionel Darras, Emmanuelle Régagnon & Séverine Sanz ; Large-sized camel depictions in western Arabia: a characterization across time and space – Guillaume Charloux, Maria Guagnin & Jérôme Norris ; The Ras al-Jinz reloaded: resuming excavations at the edge of Arabia – Alexandre P. De Rorre, Jean-François Berger, Massimo Delfino, Jonathan M. Kenoyer, Elena Maini & Valentina M. Azzarà ; Kalbā and dāw in Khaliji art: tracing extinct dhows in Arab and Persian iconography – Mick de Ruyter ; New light on the late Wadi Suq period from the Ṣuhār hinterlands – Michel de Vreeze, Bleda Düring & Eric Olijdam ; Nothing but tombs and towers? Results of the Al-Mudhaybi Regional Survey 2019 – Stephanie Döpper & Conrad Schmidt ; Excavations at Wādī al-Sail, Bahrain 2015–2019 – Takeshi Gotoh, Kiyohide Saito, Masashi Abe & Akinori Uesugi ; Renewed research at the Iron Age II site of Hili 2 (Emirate of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) – Steven Karacic, Ali Abdu Rahman Al Meqbali, Abdulla Khalfan Al Kaabi, Dia Eddin Abdullah Altawallbeh, Hamad Ahmed Fadel & Peter Magee ; A ninth- to tenth-century pottery workshop at al-Yamāmah, Central Arabia – Fabien Lesguer & Jérémie Schiettecatte ; Les fouilles françaises de Abu Saiba (Mont 1). Données nouvelles sur la phase Tylos de Bahreïn (c.200 BC–AD 300) – Pierre Lombard, Bérénice Chamel, Julien Cuny, Marianne Cotty, François Guermont, Robert Lux & Lionel Noca ; Trade and contacts between southern Arabia and East Asia: the evidence from al-Balīd (southern Oman) – Alexia Pavan & Chiara Visconti ; Ceramic exchange in the northern UAE during the Late Bronze Age: preliminary results of macroscopic and petrographic analyses – Maria Paola Pellegrino, Sophie Méry, Anne Benoist, Sophie Costa & Julien Charbonnier ; Excavations at the Old Fort of Stone Town, Zanzibar: new evidence of historic interactions between the Swahili coast and Arabian Gulf – Timothy Power & Mark Horton with Omar Salem al-Kaabi, Mohamed Matar al-Dhaheri, Myriam Saleh al-Dhaheri, Noura Hamed al-Hameli, Henry Webber & Rosie Ireland ; Late Islamic ceramic distribution networks in the Gulf: new evidence from Jazīrat al-Ḥamrāʾ in Ras al-Khaimah – Seth M.N. Priestman ; Some thoughts on the burial space inside QA 1-1, an Umm an-Nar tomb in Wādī al-Fajj (Oman): a case of incomplete paving of the tomb’s floor – Łukasz Rutkowski ; Assessing Kalba: new fieldwork at a Bronze Age coastal site on the Gulf of Oman (Emirate of Sharjah, UAE) – Christoph Schwall & Sabah A. Jasim ; Taxation and public labour in ancient Sabaʾ: an examination of ḫrṣ using the Leiden and Munich minuscule inscriptions – Jason Weimar ; Titles of papers read at the Seminar for Arabian Studies held at the University of Leiden, 11–13 July 2019

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