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See Dadān
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A large Arabian lineage group; the clans of Tamīm resided in central and eastern Arabia before Islam, and they formed a major power bloc in Iraq during early Islam.
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Script variant of the Ancient North Arabian (ANA) script family, formerly called Thamudic A, used to write inscriptions in a Semitic language, in and around the oasis of Taymāʾ in the northwest of the Arabian Peninsula, around the 6th and 5th centuries BCE.
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Stratified, multi-period site occupied from ca. 2500 BCE to 300 CE, reference site for the pre-Islamic archaeology of Southeast Arabia, where similar stratigraphic sequences are rare.
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Agricultural terraces are man-made flat or slightly inclined surfaces on the slopes of landforms or in valley bottoms. They are supported downslope and sometimes also on the sides by earth banks and/or stone walls. The precise functions of agricultural terraces vary according to time, place and environment.
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The largest pre-Islamic archaeological site in Eastern Arabia, Thāj, was a major trade centre on the trans-Arabian caravan route linking South Arabia to Babylonia. Archaeological excavations indicate that it was founded in the 4thor 3rd cent. BCE and remained settled until the 6th or 7th cent. CE. It is still mentioned as a village or watering place in sources from the Umayyad and Abbasid periods.
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See Cult objects