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  • Late Pre-Islamic period

    See Chronology of Southeast Arabia

  • Late Sabaic

    See Sabaic

  • Latin inscriptions [in Arabia]

    François Villeneuve

    So far, twenty-two inscribed documents written in Latin have been discovered in the Arabian Peninsula, all in western areas. Most of them come from north-western Arabia, mainly ancient Hegra, while a small percentage of them come from south-western Arabia, mainly from Farasān al-kubra Island. All of them are linked to the activities of the Roman army there in the 2nd century and the first decades of the 3rd century CE.

  • Layla Ware

    See Pottery (North-East Arabia)

  • Legal inscription

    See Text typology

  • Letter

    See Text typology

  • Leuke Kome

    Laïla Nehmé

    Leuke Kome (Gr. λευκή κώμη, the ‘white village’), is the name of a seaport, market place, and customs post on the Red Sea coast of Northwest Arabia.

  • Libation

    See Rituals

  • Liḥyān

    Saʿid F. al-Saʿid

    Liḥyān, pre-Islamic tribe from northwest Arabia, which evolved into a flourishing kingdom sometime between the 6th and 1st centuries BCE. The oasis of Dadan is presumed to have been the centre of the kingdom, but Liḥyān extended its hold over a vast territory and ruled the oasis of Taymāʾ during a period. Several of the Liḥyānite kings are mentioned in Dadanitic inscriptions from al-ʿUlā and Aramaic inscriptions from Taymāʾ

  • Lizq fort

    Paul A. Yule

    Located in the al-Sharqiyah North Province, Oman, Lizq has been important since first find notices appeared about it in 1981 as a type-site for the Early Iron Age (EIA) in south-eastern Arabia, complementing the site of Rumayla in the U.A.E. to the north.

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