Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies Volume 33 2003

Michael C. A. Macdonald is an Honorary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, and Fellow of the British Academy. He works on the languages, scripts and ancient history of Arabia and directs the Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia (http://krc.orient.ox.ac.uk/ociana/). He has been working at Taymāʾ since 2010.

• THE ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY OF OMAN AND THE GULF ; Peter Magee, New chronometric data defining the Iron Age II period in south-eastern Arabia ; Vincent Charpentier, Philippe Marquis & Éric Pellé, La nécropole et les derniers horizons Ve millénaire du site de Gorbat al-Mahar (Suwayh, SWY–1, Sultanat d'Oman) : premiers résultats ; Jutta Häser, Archaeological results of the 1999 and 2000 survey campaigns in Wadi Bani Awf and the region of al-Hamra (Central Oman) ; Cécile Monchablon, Rémy Crassard, Olivia Munoz, Hervé Guy, Gaëlle Bruley-Chabot & Serge Cleuziou, Excavations at Ra’s al-Jinz RJ–1: stratigraphy without tells ; Tom Vosmer, The Magan Boat Project: a process of discovery, a discovery of process ; Anne Benoist, Michel Mouton & Jeremie Schiettecatte, The artefacts from the fort at Mleiha: distribution, origins, trade and dating ; Ali Tigani ElMahi & Moawiyah Ibrahim, Two seasons of investigations at Manal site in the Wadi Samayil area, Sultanate of Oman ; Soumyen Bandyopadhyay & Magda Sibley, The distinctive typology of central Omani mosques: its nature and antecedents ; Caesar E. Farah, Anglo-Ottoman confrontation in the Persian Gulf in the late 19th and early 20th centuries ; COMPARATIVE WATER SYSTEMS ; Miquel Barceló, Julián Ortega, Arcadi Piera & Josep Torró, The Search for the Hararah asdād in the area of Zafār, Governorate of Ibb, Yemen ; Helena Kirchner, Ma’jil: a type of hydraulic system in Yemen and in al-Andalus? ; THE ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY OF PRE-ISLAMIC YEMEN ; T.J. Wilkinson, The organization of settlement in highland Yemen during the Bronze and Iron Ages ; Frank Braemer, Serge Cleuziou & Tara Steimer, Dolmen-like structures: some unusual funerary monuments in Yemen ; William D. Glanzman, An examination of the building campaign of YadaΚΜil Dharīh bin Sumhu’alay, mukarrib of Saba’, in light of recent archaeology ; Jean-François Breton, Preliminary notes on the development of Shabwa ; Christian Darles, Les fortifications de Shabwa, capitale du royaume de Hadramawt ; Jan Retsö, When did Yemen become Arabia felix? ; The epigraphy of pre-Islamic Yemen ; Joseph L. Daniels, Landscape graffiti in the Dhamār Plains and its relation to mountain-top religious practice ; Serguei A. Frantsouzof, The Hadramitic funerary inscription from the cave-tomb at al-Rukbah (Wādī Ghabr, Inland Hadramawt) and burial ceremonies in ancient Hadramawt ; Peter Stein, The inscribed wooden sticks of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich ; Mohammed Maraqten, Some notes on Sabaic epistolography ; YEMEN IN THE ISLAMIC PERIOD ; A. Rougeulle, Excavations at Sharmah, Hadramawt the 2001 and 2002 seasons ; Noha Sadek, a’izz, capital of the Rasulid dynasty in Yemen ; ETHNOGRAPHY IN YEMEN ; Vitaly Naumkin & Victor Porkhomovsky, Oral poetry in the Soqotran socio-cultural context. The case of the ritual song The girl and the jinn ; Miranda Morris, The Soqotra Archipelago: concepts of good health and everyday remedies for illness ; Ester Muchawsky-Schnapper, Children's attire in early 20th-century San’ā’ as a socio-cultural paradigm.