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Altsüdarabische Texte auf Holzstäbchen. Epigraphische und kulturhistorische Untersuchungen, written by Mohammed Maraqten, 2014


Altsüdarabische Texte auf Holzstäbchen. Epigraphische und kulturhistorische Untersuchungen,... For a long time the epigraphic sources of Ancient South Arabia seemed to have been confined to representative, strongly standardized stone or metal inscriptions in the so-called “monumental” script (ar. musnad). In the early 1970s, however, completely new texts came to light, incised in palm-leaf stalks and other wooden sticks of varying lengths (3 to 50 cm). They had been written in an Ancient South Arabian minuscule script (ar. zabūr) and comprised all sorts of daily correspondence such as private letters, contracts, delivery notes, and records of oracular decisions and prayers. At present several thousand of these inscriptions are known to exist, and their contribution to our knowledge of Ancient South Arabia is immense. The publication by Mohammed Maraqten of 101 samples from the National Museum of Ṣanʿāʾ’s collection is therefore to be highly valued. As the author explains in his foreword, the book originates from a two-year research project that aimed to document and publish all of the national museum’s inscribed wooden sticks. Yet because there are more than four thousand registered texts (a certain amount of them being fakes), a selection was made to give an overview of the various genres.
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Altsüdarabische Texte auf Holzstäbchen. Epigraphische und kulturhistorische Untersuchungen, written by Mohammed Maraqten, 2014


Jändl, Barbara
Die Welt des Islams , Volume 57 (1): 3 – Mar 29, 2017
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0043-2539
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10.1163/15700607-00571p13
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Abstract

For a long time the epigraphic sources of Ancient South Arabia seemed to have been confined to representative, strongly standardized stone or metal inscriptions in the so-called “monumental” script (ar. musnad). In the early 1970s, however, completely new texts came to light, incised in palm-leaf stalks and other wooden sticks of varying lengths (3 to 50 cm). They had been written in an Ancient South Arabian minuscule script (ar. zabūr) and comprised all sorts of daily correspondence such as private letters, contracts, delivery notes, and records of oracular decisions and prayers. At present several thousand of these inscriptions are known to exist, and their contribution to our knowledge of Ancient South Arabia is immense. The publication by Mohammed Maraqten of 101 samples from the National Museum of Ṣanʿāʾ’s collection is therefore to be highly valued. As the author explains in his foreword, the book originates from a two-year research project that aimed to document and publish all of the national museum’s inscribed wooden sticks. Yet because there are more than four thousand registered texts (a certain amount of them being fakes), a selection was made to give an overview of the various genres.
The book is organized in two parts.

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Die Welt des Islams – Brill

Published: Mar 29, 2017

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