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Caravan kingdoms : Yemen and the ancient incense trade
- Title
- Caravan kingdoms : Yemen and the ancient incense trade / edited by Ann C. Gunter.
- Publication
- Washington, D.C. : Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 2005.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 181 p. : col. ill., col. maps; 26 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-177) and index.
- Language (note)
- Introduction in English and Arabic.
- Contents
- Director's foreword and acknowledgments -- Minister's foreword and Arabic translation -- Sponsor's foreword and Arabic translation -- Chronology -- History, chronology, and archaeology -- The dawn of history in Yemen's interior / Alessandro de Maigret -- New research at the Sabaean city and oasis of Sirwah / Iris Gerlach -- An early Himyarite mountain settlement on Jabal al-Awd / Holger Hitgen -- Religion and funerary practices / Alexander Sima -- The Awwam temple (Mahram Bilqis) / Merilyn Phillips Hodgson -- Recent epigraphic discoveries at the Awwam temple / Mohammed Maraqten -- Conservation of the Almaqah temple of Baran / Burkhard Vogt -- Death and funerary practices / Burkhard Vogt -- The cemetery of the Awwam temple / Iris Gerlach -- Images: gods, humans, and animals / Sabina Antonini -- Trade and technology -- Trade, incense, and perfume / Nigel Groom -- The beginnings of irrigation / Ueli Brunner -- New research on the great dam at Marib / Burkhard Vogt -- Bibliography of works cited -- Credits -- Index.
- Call Number
- JQZ 12-2307
- ISBN
- 0934686009 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2005010448
- OCLC
- 59098817
- Title
- Caravan kingdoms : Yemen and the ancient incense trade / edited by Ann C. Gunter.
- Imprint
- Washington, D.C. : Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 2005.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-177) and index.
- Language
- Introduction in English and Arabic.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Gunter, Ann Clyburn, 1951-Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)
- Research Call Number
- JQZ 12-2307