List of Articles

Nabatea

• Nabataean echoes in al-Ḥarrah: New evidence in light of recent field work
• PETRA REVISITED: A REVIEW OF A SEMITIC CULT COMPLEX
• Two New Nabataean Inscriptions from Wadi Musa, with Discussion of Gaia and the Marzeah
• WAS DIONYSOS, THE WINE GOD, VENERATED BY THE NABATAEANS
• Human or Centipede? Egyptian Influence on the Nabataean Culture
• Nabataean Dushara (Dusares) - an overlooked cuirassed god
• The Nabataean`s ports on the Rea Sea
• Nabataean Jewellery and Accessories
• The Basileion of Isis and the religious art of nabataean Petra
• Nabataean Practices for Tombs Protection
• Modern "Nabataean" military parade as today performed near the ancient dam of Petra
• The Nabataean 'Caesar' inscription from Khirbat az-Zuna
• Piecing Together the Religion of the Nabataeans
• NABATAEAN FERTILITY MYTH, PLACE, TIME, RITUALS AND ACTORS BASED ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE
• A Nabatean Incantation Text
• Nabataeans or Ituraeans in Mount Lebanon? About the Aramaic inscription of Yanouḥ
• Kamkam the Nabataean Priestess: Priesthood and Society in Ancient Arabia
• A Nabataean Bronze Lamp Dedicated to Baalshamin
• The many faces of Dushara – A Critical Review of the Evidence
• The Betyls of Petra
• THE ‘LORD OF THE STONEMASONS’: PART I. THE ‘SWORD DEITY’ AT PETRA
• Cybele, Atargatis, or Allāt? A Surprising Tomb Artifact from Petra’s North Ridge
• New dated inscriptions (Nabataean and pre-Islamic Arabic) from a site near al-Jawf, ancient Dūmah, Saudi Arabia
• A new Nabataean funerary inscription from Dhıban, with a brief account on Dhıban during the Nabataean period

South Arabia

• Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature
• A Himyarite diplomatic mission to the Sasaniancourt of Bahram II depicted at Bishapur
• The Art of Himyar and the Mountain Kingdoms of Yemen
• South Arabia, Religions in Pre-Islamic
• Curse formulae in South Arabian inscriptions and some of their Semitic parallels
• Religions in Pre-Islamic South Arabia
• 2012. Evidence from a new inscription regarding the goddess 't-(t)rm and some remarks on the gender of deities in South Arabia
• A New Sabaean Inscription: The Goddess Athrat (Athīrat), the Mother of God ‘Athtar المعبودة أثرت (أثيرة) أم المعبود عثتر في ضوء نقش سبئي جديد
• The pilgrimage of a Sabaean woman
• 2011. The Sabaic inscription A–20–216: a new Sabaean-Seleucid synchronism
• المخلافي. عبد السلام. 2021. "The Hymn of Qāniya (Contemporary Rereading)ترنيمة قانية قراءة جديدة" آداب الحديدة. العدد الثامن. 145-210
• The Art of Ancient Mesopotamia and South Arabia
• Seasonal offerings among the Minaeans: The case of ancient Yathil
• The historical development of Paganism in Najrān, during the pre-and e arly Islamic era (524 -641) AD
• Sculpture from Arabia Felix. The Hellenistic Period
• Before Ḥimyar. Epigraphic Evidence for the Kingdoms of South Arabia

Tayma'

• The Language of the Taymanitic Inscriptions and its Classification
• The Aramaic pantheon of Tayma’
• THE STELE OF TEIMA IN ARABIA: A WELCOME OF THE GODS
• Catalogue of the inscriptions discovered in the Saudi-German excavations at Taymāʾ
• A religious building complex in the ancient settlement of Tayma (North-West Arabia) during the Nabataean period: changes and transformations

Palmyra

• The Glyptotek presents The Road to Palmyra, the largest collection of ancient Palmyrene tomb sculptures outside of Syria
• The gods of Palmyra
• Gods and temples of Palmyra
• The iconography of caravan trade in Palmyra and the Roman Near East

Dedan

• The divine names at Dadan: a philological approach
• North Arabic Dedanite Script with East-Syriac Reading
• Dedan - Khuraibah: Early Ancient Kingdom and Trading Oasis on the Incense Route

Makkah

• The Ka`ba: Aspects of its Ritual Functions
• The Origins of the Muslim Descriptions of the Jāhilī Meccan Sanctuary
• How Did the Quranic Pagans Make a Living?

Madyan

• Shrine of Hathor (Timna) - Madain Project (en)
• The Archaeology of Cult of Ancient Israel’s Southern Neighbors and the Midianite-Kenite Hypothesis
• Who were the Kenites?

North Arabia

• Al-Jallad. 2021. On the origins of the god Ruḍaw and some remarks on the pre-Islamic North Arabian pantheon
• The “God of Ġsn” in an Ancient North Arabian inscription from the Ḥarra region – Northeastern Jordan.
• Religion in Northern Hejaz
• The Gods of Ammon, Moab and Edom in an Ancient North Arabian inscription from Jordan
• A few notes on the alleged occurrence of the Group name ‘Ghassān’ in a Safaitic inscription
• The Seven Stars, Allāt from ʿmn and Dusares from Rqm: A new Safaitic astronomical text
• The month ʾdr in Safaitic and the status of spirantization in "Arabian" Aramaic
• The Tell el-Maskhuta Bowls and the 'Kingdom' of Qedar in the Persian Period
• Ammon, Moab, and Edom: Gods and Kingdoms East of the Jordan
• New Discoveries at Sela, the Mountain Stronghold of Edom
• Religious Practices and Beliefs in Wadi Mousa between the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
• The Esarhaddon Prism
• Temples and Cult Places in Iron Age Transjordan
• MEDUSA IN NABATAEAN, HATRAN AND PALMYRENECULTURES
• Arabs in Syria: Demography and Epigraphy
• The Coins of the Itureans

East Arabia

• Languages and scripts at the Arabian Gulf in the Hellenistic period: The epigraphic evidence from Mleiha (Sharjah, U.A.E)
• Snake, copper and water in south-eastern Arabian religion during the Iron Age: the Bithnah and Masāfi evidence
• Potts 1998 - Identities in the East Arabian region (with assistance from S. Blau). Mediterranean Archaeology 11: 27–38.
• An Inscribed Hasaitic Bronze Plaque
• Traditional Arabian Watercraft and the Ark of the Gilgamesh Epic: Interpretations and Realizations

Other

• Was Arabian Idol Worship Declining on the Eve of Islam?
• The Idea of Idolatry by Smirna Si
• Mysteries and Mysticism in the Arabian Desert
• Sacred Images of Metaphysical World – Perspective of Prehistoric Religion in Arabia
• The Arabian Iron Age funerary stelae and the issue of cross-cultural contacts
• Early Religion in Ancient Arabia
• An Arabian Trinity
• Religion in Arabia among Pastoral and Agrarian Civilizations From the Bronze Age through Islam
• Techniques of Graeco-Egyptian Magic
• ʿAbd al-Asad and the Question of a Lion-God in the pre-Islamic Tradition: An Onomastic Study
• The Aniconic Image of the Roman Near East
• Who Are the “Attendants of Helios”?
• Arabic Wine Deities
• A Comparative Study of Priesthoods and Clergy
• Why worship Gods?
• Foreign Gods, Syncretism and Hellenismos
• On God Forms
• Arab Kings, Arab Tribes, Arab historical memory
• WINE DRINKING AND WINE PROHIBITION IN ARABIA BEFORE ISLAM
• THE ORIGINS OF MUSLIMS PRAYER
• On the Gods and The World by Sallustius
• On the Gods and The World by Sallustius (PDF)
• The Semitic Goddess of Fate, Fortuna-Tyche
• Rain-Giver, Bone-Breaker,Score-Settler Allāh in Pre-Quranic Poetry
• The Solubba: Nonpastoral Nomads in Arabia
• Models, Portraits, and Signs of Fate in Ancient Arabian Tradition
• Rehabilitating the Spirituality of Pre-Islamic Arabia: On the Importance of the Kahin, the Jinn, and the Tribal Ancestral Cult
• The Descent of Ishtar
• DISCOVERY OF HELLENSTIC TEMPLE AT UMM QEIS SITE GADARA IN NORTHERN JORDAN
• YHWH, The Canaanite god of metallurgy?