Taymāʼ. II, Catalogue of the inscriptions discovered in the Saudi-German excavations at Taymāʼ 2004-2015 /

Taymāʼ. II, Catalogue of the inscriptions discovered in the Saudi-German excavations at Taymāʼ 2004-2015 /

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Imprint:Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing, [2021]
©2020
Description:1 online resource (xiv, 257 pages : color illustrations.
Language:English
Series:Taymā': Multidisciplinary Series on the Results of the Saudi-German Archaeological Project
Subject:
Inscriptions -- Saudi Arabia -- Taymāʼ -- Catalogs.
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Saudi Arabia -- Taymāʼ.
Social sciences.
Taymāʼ (Saudi Arabia) -- Antiquities -- Catalogs.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13431568
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Other authors / contributors:Macdonald, M. C. A., editor.
Hausleiter, Arnulf, contributor.
Imbert, Frédéric, contributor.
Schaudig, Hanspeter, contributor.
Stein, Peter, contributor.
Tourtet, Francelin, contributor.
Trognitz, Martina, contributor.
ISBN:9781789698770
1789698774
9781789698763
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Open Research Library, viewed January 25, 2023).
Summary:Taymāʼ II is a Catalogue which contains all the inscriptions discovered during the 24 seasons of the Saudi- German excavations at Taymāʼ from 2004-15 which were funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The 113 objects carry inscriptions in different languages and scripts, illustrating the linguistic diversity of the oasis through time. Although the majority are fragmentary, they provide an important source for the history of the oasis in ancient and mediaeval times. The Babylonian cuneiform inscriptions in this volume confirm for the first time the ten-year sojourn at Taymāʼ of the last Babylonian king Nabû-na'id (556-539 BC). In addition, Imperial Aramaic inscriptions dated by the reigns of Lihyanite kings, based at Dadan (modern al-ʿUlā), reveal for the first time that they ruled Taymāʼ at a period in the second half of the first millennium BC. As well as editing the volume, Michael C. A. Macdonald edited the Imperial Aramaic inscriptions found from 2010-15, plus those in the form of the Aramaic script which developed in Taymāʼ, and the Nabataean, Dadanitic, and Taymanitic texts. In addition, Hanspeter Schaudig edited the cuneiform inscriptions; Peter Stein, the Imperial Aramaic texts found from 2004-09; and Frédéric Imbert, the Arabic inscriptions. Arnulf Hausleiter and Francelin Tourtet provided archaeological contributions, while Martina Trognitz curated the virtual edition of many of the texts recorded by RTI. The indexes contain the words and names from all known texts from the oasis, including those in the Taymāʼ Museum and other collections which will be published as Taymāʼ III.
Other form:Print version: Taymāʼ. II, Catalogue of the inscriptions discovered in the Saudi-German excavations at Taymāʼ 2004-2015. Oxford : Archaeopress Archaeology, 2021 9781789698763
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword - Abdullah A. Alzahrani ; Preface by the Series Editors - Arnulf Hausleiter, Ricardo Eichmann, Muhammad Al-Najem ; Introduction ; Inscription sigla, editorial symbols, and dimensions ; The Catalogue ; Section 1. Cuneiform texts from the Saudi-German Excavations at Taymāʼ Seasons 2004-2015 - Hanspeter Schaudig ; Section 2. Die reichsaramäischen Inschriften der Kampagnen 2005-2009 aus Taymāʼ - Peter Stein ; Section 3. The Imperial Aramaic inscriptions found in the 2010-2015 seasons ; Section 4. Texts in three different forms of the Aramaic script ; On the iconography of the 'Great Nephesh' TA 10277 from Tayma - Arnulf Hausleiter ; Section 5. The Taymāʼ Aramaic inscriptions ; Section 6. The Nabataean inscriptions ; Section 7. The Dadanitic inscriptions ; Section 8. The Taymanitic inscriptions ; Section 9. The Arabic inscriptions from the Saudi-German Excavations at Taymāʼ 2004-2015 - Frédéric Imbert ; Section 10. Queries ; Appendices ; Appendix A. Gravestones of men and women at Taymāʼ ; Appendix B. Eskoubi 1999, no. 272 ; Appendix C. On the publication of inscriptions from the Saudi-German excavations at Taymāʼ by means of Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) - Martina Trognitz ; Combined indexes of words and names in the inscriptions in this Catalogue and the Catalogue of Inscriptions in the Taymāʼ Museum (Taymāʼ III) ; Index of words and Names in the Akkadian inscriptions from the oasis of Taymāʼ - Hanspeter Schaudig ; Index of words and names in the Imperial Aramaic, Taymāʼ Aramaic, and Nabataean inscriptions from the oasis of Taymāʼ ; Index of words and names in the Dadanitic and Taymanitic inscriptions from the oasis of Taymāʼ ; Index of words and names in the Minaic inscription ; Index of words and names in the Arabic inscriptions ; Lists of the inscriptions ; Sigla ; References.

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