ORGANIZER:Austrian Academy of Sciences, Library, Archive & Collection: Information and Services, Glaser-Collection (BAS:IS)

CONTACT:Mag. Petra AignerAustrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Library, Archive & Collection: Information and Service (BAS:IS)petra.aigner@oeaw.ac.at

KINGDOMS, TRIBES, AND TRADERS

ANCIENT SOUTH ARABIA

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

10:00 Anne Multhoff | Friedrich Schiller University Jena Das Sabäische Online-Wörterbuch – Stand und Aufgaben 10:30 Heiko Werwick| Friedrich Schiller University Jena Technische Hintergründe der Erstellung eines Wörterbuchs für das Sabäische

COFFEE BREAK

Session: Technics Chair: George Hatke | Austrian Academy of Sciences, University of Vienna 11:15 Udo Fleischhauer | VirtuMake, Canon, Vienna Verfahren zur Digitalisierung epigraphischer Abklatsche in der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

11:45 Christoph Hoff mann | Austrian Academy of Sciences Between Accessibility and Persistence – Archival and Provision of 3D–Scanned Materials

LUNCH BREAK WITH BUFFET

Session: Culture II Chair: Peter Stein | Friedrich Schiller University Jena 14:00 Holger Hitgen | German Archaeological Institute Sabaean Settlement Strategies in an Arid Region –The Oasis of Mārib from the Late 2nd Millennium BC to the Mid-1st Millennium AD

14:30 Jan Retsö | Gothenburg University The background and meaning of the sura of the elephant

15:00 Orhan Elmaz | University of St. Andrews A Paradise in the Desert: Iram at the Intersection of One Thousand and One Nights, the Qur’an, and Arabian History

15:30 Excursion to the South Arabian Departement of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Elisabeth Monamy | Archeomuse e.U., Vienna Ronald Ruzicka | Austrian Academy of Sciences, Simutech

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31 AUGUST – 2 SEPTEMBER 2016AUSTRIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

CLUBRAUMDR. IGNAZ SEIPEL-PLATZ 2

1010 VIENNA

Institut für Orientalistik

PROGRAMME COFFEE BREAK

Session: Epigraphy and Correspondence Chair: Norbert Nebes | Friedrich Schiller University Jena 11:15 Arbach Mounir | National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) Christian Darles | TRACES, University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès Temples of the Jawf in the Lowland North of Yemen: Architecture and Epigraphy

11:45 Peter Stein | Friedrich Schiller University Jena Zabur-Schrift am Golf? Neue Textfunde aus Al-Mulayha, Sharjah (UAE)

LUNCH BREAK WITH BUFFET

Session: Language I Chair: Ronald Ruzicka | Austrian Academy of Sciences, Simutech 14:30 Norbert Nebes | Friedrich Schiller University Jena Herrschertitulatur und Herrschaftsformel in den äthiosabäischen Inschriften

15:00 Daniel Mahoney | Austrian Academy of Sciences Death and Divinity: Medieval Reports Containing Pre-Islamic Burial Inscriptions from South Arabia

15:30 Anton Kungl | University of Vienna Some Notes on the Early Development of the Hadramitic Corpus

COFFEE BREAK

Discussion Session Chair: Ronald Ruzicka | Austrian Academy of Sciences, Simutech 16:15 Werner Daum | ambassador rtd. Tithes in Pre-Islamic Yemen and Today

16:45 Discussion: Tithes in Yemen

19:00 Dinner (Fuhrgassl-Huber, Neustift am Walde 68, 1190 Vienna)

FRIDAY, 2 SEPTEMBER 2016 Session: Language II Chair: George Hatke | Austrian Academy of Sciences, University of Vienna 09:30 Ronald Ruzicka | Austrian Academy of Sciences, Simutech Kalam - Wortanalyse für das Sabäische

WEDNESDAY, 31 AUGUST 2016 12:00 Registration, Greet and Meet with brunch

Welcome and Introduction 14:00 Michael Alram | Vice President, Austrian Academy of Sciences Welcome Address Sibylle Wentker – Petra Aigner | Austrian Academy of Sciences ÖAW und BAS:IS

Keynote Lecture Chair: Stephan Procházka | University of Vienna 14:30 George Hatke | Austrian Academy of Sciences, University of Vienna Feasting and Federation: An Ancient South Arabian Tradition in its Near Eastern Context

COFFEE BREAK

Session: Culture I Chair: Stephan Procházka | University of Vienna 15:45 Iris Gerlach | German Archaeological Institute Kulturkontakte im frühen 1. Jahrtausend

16:15 Sarah Japp | German Archaeological Institute Podiumbauten mit vorgelagertem Hof – eine spezifische Architekturform in Südarabien

16:45 Mohammed Maraqten | Heidelberg University to be announced

THURSDAY, 1 SEPTEMBER 2016 Session: Glaser Chair: Norbert Nebes | Friedrich Schiller University Jena 09:30 Elisabeth Monamy | Archeomuse e.U., Vienna Eduard Glaser – From Bohemia through Yemen to Austria

10:00 George Hatke | Austrian Academy of Sciences, University of Vienna Ronald Ruzicka | Austrian Academy of Sciences, Simutech Digitizing the Glaser Squeezes of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

10:30 Poster Session Magdalena Moorthy Kloss – Odile Kommer | Austrian Academy of Sciences Presentation of original squeezes

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