PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
Thursday 9 June - Morning Session
9.00 Meeting Opening
Counsellor Yemen Embassy
9.30 Sergei FRANTSOUZOFF (St Petersburg)
A new rock inscription of the Himyarite king Abîkarib Asʿad (South Yemen, region of Yâfiʾ)
10.00 Iwona GAJDA (Paris)
The cult of the Solar Goddess, Shams in Ancient South Arabia
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 Jérémie SCHIETTECATTE (Paris)
Al-Yamâma : from the pre-Islamic village to the Islamic city. Results of five field seasons of the Saudi-French archaeological mission in al-Kharj (2011-2016)
11.30 Alessia PRIOLETTA (Paris)
The site of Maʾsal al-Jumḥ (Najd, central Arabia) : results of the French-Saudi
Mission to Najran 2015 campaign
12.00 Mike SCHNELLE (Berlin)
Sirwah - The urban topography of a Sabaean town
12.30 Lunch break
Thursday 9 June - Afternoon Session
15.00 Michael FRADLEY (Oxford) & Andrea ZERBINI (Oxford)
Endangered Archaeology in Yemen : the role of satellite imagery analysis in surveying the inaccessible
15.30 Werner DAUM (Berlin)
Archaeology is not everything - There are other ways also of exploring the intellectual and religious universe of ancient Yemen
16.00 Coffee break
16.30 Mounir ARBACH (Paris - Riyāḍ)
Les sites antiques du Jawf depuis Joseph Halévy à nos jours...
17.00 Iris GERLACH (Berlin)
South Arabian Art Reconsidered : The Development of Art in the Early First
Millenium BC
20.00 Conference dinner (upon invitation)
Friday 10 June - Morning Session
9.30 Francesco FEDELE (Turin)
A glimpse of ‘Greater Yathill’ : Sabaean settlement at Barāqish
10.00 Christian DARLES (Toulouse)
L’architecture des temples de Nakrah et ʿAthtar dhu-Qabḍ à Barāqish
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 Vittoria BUFFA (Rome)
Firing pottery in South Arabia
11.30 Sarah JAPP (Berlin)
Pottery research in South Arabia : Reflection and Perspectives
12.00 Alexander SEDOV (Moscow)
Numismatic evidence for two Yashhurʾil
12.30 Lunch break
Friday 10 June - Afternoon Session
15.00 Jean-François BRETON (Paris)
The catalogue of ʿAtaq Museum
15.30 Zaydoon ZAID (Berlin)
AFSM, 50 years of archaeological research in Yemen
16.00 Coffee break
16.30 Alexander NAGEL (Washington DC)
Past Panoramas and Qatabān Legacies : New Work on South Arabian Archives and
Materials in Washington, DC.
17.00 Sabina ANTONINI (Perugia) & Fabio BETTI (Milan) Jewellery from Kharibat Hamdān/Haram
Saturday 11 June - Morning Session
9.30 Michael JUNG (Rome)
Southern Arabian spoils in Yemeni mosques
10.00 Renzo RAVAGNAN (Venice)
Le datazioni al C14 del soffitto a cassettoni in legno policromo della Grande
Moschea di Ṣanʿāʾ
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 Mohammed MARAQTEN (Heidelberg)
The relation of Saba with Abyssinia in the light of a recently discovered inscription at the Awām temple, near Maʾrib, Yemen
11.30 Christian ROBIN (Paris)
Pèlerinages d’Arabie avant l’Islam. Marib, Ṣanʿāʾ et Makka
12.00 Closing Remarks