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Soft stones were worked as early as the 9th millennium BCE in the Arabian Peninsula and in the neighbouring regions of the Middle East: Egypt, Iran and any other territory with such geological resources. The production of soft stone objects has continued to the present-day, with peaks of manufacture in the Bronze Age and much later in the early Islamic period. Hard stones were also worked, for the manufacture of large vessels and macrolithic tools, but unlike for soft stone vessels, there is no evidence of a clearly identified tradition and long-term production.
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Strabo (ca. 60/50 BCE–ca. 25 CE), Greek historian and geographer, author of the ‘Geography’ (written by 17–24 CE), a geographical description of the world known to Greeks and Romans, of which the second part of book 16 (sections 3 and 4) is one of the most complete extant accounts of Arabia and its peoples in Ancient Greek literature, while other sections of the work also provide a few scraps of information about Arabs and Arabia (especially books 1–2).
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The national god of Ḥaḍramawt, i.e., the divine protector and master of this South Arabian kingdom.
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Place of worship in South Arabia in the monotheistic period. It designated a synagogue in Jewish or Judaizing inscriptions but could also have a broader meaning in some inscriptions.