An onomastic index of the Minaic inscriptions (6th - 1st c. BCE)
Libreria Editrice L'Erma di Bretschneider
English Text.
Roma, 2024; paperback, cm 14x21.
(Arabia Antica. Archaeological and Philological Series. 18).
series: Arabia Antica. Archaeological and Philological Series.
ISBN: 88-913-3144-9
- EAN13: 9788891331441
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During the second half of the 1st millennium BC, the kingdom of Ma??n became one of the main political and commercial players in ancient South Arabia, thanks to its involvement in the incense trade towards the Mediterranean and the Mesopotamian world. The corpus made of over 1300 Minaic inscriptions, spanning from the 6th c. BCE until the decline of the kingdom of Ma??n around the 1st c. BCE, contains more than 3000 occurrences of proper names - persons, families, lineages, tribes, places, gods - which are essential elements for the historical, linguistic and cultural reconstruction of the South Arabian civilization. [...]