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See Judaism [Ḥimyar]
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Yemeni silver-mining site active from late Antiquity to the 10th century.
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See Raybūn
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Name of the one God venerated in South Arabia during the so-called “monotheistic period”. The name Rḥmnn occurs in South Arabian (Ḥimyarite) inscriptions in the 5th and 6th centuries CE. It designated the one God in Jewish, Judaizing or vaguely monotheistic, and Christian texts.
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Concentration of Early Iron Age, Early Islamic, and Mid-Late Islamic settlements and primary copper production sites located on the western piedmont of northeastern Oman. The sites represent one of the densest and largest concentrations of industrial activity in southeast Arabia.
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The ancient oasis of Raybūn was one of the largest agricultural sites of the Inner Ḥaḍramawt in the 1st mill. BCE. It is located in the lower reaches of the Wādī Dawʿan and consists of several settlements and farmsteads with a collective irrigation system, temples and sanctuaries, and cave necropolises on the edge of the valley. The core of the oasis is the settlement Raybūn I.
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Rock art constitutes one of the main sources of information on pre- and protohistoric societies in Arabia. It also provides an invaluable iconographic corpus for the study of “desert peoples” and their environment during pre-Islamic and Islamic times.
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Administrative unit created in 106 CE through the annexation of the Nabataean Kingdom, with Petra and Bostra as principal cities. In the 4th cent., the province was subdivided into Arabia and Palaestina Salutaris/Tertia. Both provinces existed until the Muslim conquest in the early 7th cent.
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This entry explores the military, political, diplomatic and commercial relations between the Roman Empire and the Arabian Peninsula.