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1 online resource (945 pages) |
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This richly illustrated volume presents the remarkable results of the Italian Archaeological Mission's investigations at the site of the walled town of Barqish in interior Yemen, ancient Yathill of the Sabaeans and Minaeans, between 1986 and 2007. |
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Text in English, French and Italian. |
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Print version record. |
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Volume 1. Excavations of Temple B and Related Research and Restoration = cavi del Tempio B e ricerche e restauri connessi -- Volume 2. Excavations in Area C and Overview Studies = Scavi fuori mura (Area C) e studi di sintesi |
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Volume 1. Contents -- Preface = Premessa -- Contributors -- Dates and Arabic names -- Barqish: reference map and plan -- Introductory information. Chapter 1. A history of archaeological research at Barqish and in its area / Sabina Antonini and Francesco G. Fedele -- Chapter 2. Risultati della prima prospezione della Missione archeologica italiana a Barqish nel 1986 / Sabina Antonini -- The Temple of ‘Athtar dhu-Qab (Temple B) -- Chapter 3. Il tempio di ‘Athtar dhu-Qab. Lo scavo / Alessio Agostini -- Chapter 4. Il tempio di ‘Athtar dhu-Qab. Le iscrizioni / Alessio Agostini -- Chapter 5. Il tempio di ‘Athtar dhu-Qab. Gli oggetti / Sabina Antonini -- Chapter 6. An obsidian cache from Temple B / Francesco G. Fedele -- Chapter 7. The Temple of ‘Athtar dhu-Qab. The Pottery / Vittoria Buffa -- Extramural excavation at Recess R44/45 (Minaean Wall) -- Chapter 8. Lo scavo fuori mura in R44/45 a Barqish / Sabina Antonini con Rosario Valentini -- Chapter 9. Lo scavo fuori mura in R44/45 a Barqish. Le iscrizioni / Alessio Agostini -- Architecture and Cult. Chapter 10. L'architecture des Temples de Nakra et ‘Athtar dhu-Qab à Barqish Christian Darles -- Chapter 11. Le mobilier de culte dans le temple de Nakra à Barqish / Solène Marion de Procé -- Chapter 12. La brique de terre crue dans les fortifications de l'Arabie du sud. L'exemple de Barqish / Christian Darles -- Restoration: Temples A and B -- Chapter 13. Restauro conservativo e strutturale degli elementi architettonici della sala ipostila del Tempio di Nakra (Tempio A) a Barqish / Saverio Bruno Scigliano e Alessandra Paladino -- Chapter 14. Restauro, movimentazione e messa in sicurezza degli elementi architettonici del tempio di ‘Athtar dhu-Qab (Tempio B) a Barqish / averio Bruno Scigliano e Alessandra Paladino -- Barqish/Yathill: Corings and Radiocarbon. Chapter 15. Exploratory coring at Barqish, 1987 and 1990 / Francesco G. Fedele -- Chapter 16. Radiocarbon determinations 1987-2006: Corings, Temples A and B, Area D. A survey and reappraisal / Francesco G. Fedele -- Bibliography for Volume 1. |
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Volume 2. Contents -- Chapter 17. Excavations in Area C. Setting, Stratigraphy, and Geoarchaeology / Francesco G. Fedele -- Chapter 18. Excavations in Area C. Chronology and the Historical Sequence / Francesco G. Fedele -- Chapter 19. Excavations in Area C. Economy, Trade, and the Environment / Francesco G. Fedele -- Chapter 20. The Area C Collection Catalogue and Related Works / Francesco G. Fedele -- Chapter 21. Area C. The Objects / Francesco G. Fedele and Sabina Antonini -- Area C. The Objects -- Chapter 22. Area C. The Minaean Pottery / Vittoria Buffa -- Chapter 23. Area C. The Sabaean Pottery: a Survey / Francesco G. Fedele -- Chapter 24. Area C. Il materiale epigrafico / Alessio Agostini -- Ceramic Typology, Territory, and a Historical Outline of the Jawf -- Chapter 25. The Typological Classification of the Minaean Pottery from the Temple of ‘Athtar dhu-Qab and the Extramural Excavations in Area C / Vittoria Buffa -- Chapter 26. A Glimpse of 'Greater Yathill': Sabaean Settlement and Tell Evolution / Francesco G. Fedele -- Chapter 27. Les inscriptions de Barqish : apport à la connaissance de l'antique cité de Yathill et du royaume de Ma‘n / Jérémie Schiettecatte avec la collaboration de Mounir Arbach -- Chapter 28. Risultati di una prospezione archeologica nel sito di Darb al-ab / Rosario Valentini -- Abstracts of Chapters -- Bibliography for Volume 2. |
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Barqish (Yemen) -- Antiquities.
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- Yemen (Republic) -- Barqish.
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Yathill (Extinct city)
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Excavations (Archaeology)
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Fouilles (Archéologie)
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excavation (process)
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Social Science -- Archaeology.
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Antiquities
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Excavations (Archaeology)
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Fedele, Francesco G.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Antonini, Sabina. Baraqish/Yathill (Yemen) 1986-2007. Oxford : Archaeopress, 2021 9781789694710 |
| ISBN |
9781789694710 (electronic bk.) |
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178969471X (electronic book) |
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1789694701 |
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9781789694703 |
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9781789694703 (paperback) |
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AU@ 000069142495 |
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AU@ 000069149705 |
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AU@ 000070136439 |
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AU@ 000073935974 |
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UKMGB 020189171 |
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