Two inscribed wine amphoras from Thāj, Saudi Arabia

IF 0.7 4区历史学 0 ARCHAEOLOGY

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy Pub Date : 2021-06-04 DOI:10.1111/aae.12193

Flemming Højlund, Nicolas Garnier, Peter Stein

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Abstract

Two amphoras found at burials outside the ancient city of Thāj, Saudi Arabia, bear inscriptions mentioning wine. The chemical analysis of the content of one of them confirms the presence of wine and more precisely as red wine. Contextual information from one of the graves suggests that wine was consumed as part of burial rituals. One inscription is in Aramaic and the other is in South Arabian cursive or zabūr—in fact the first attestation for this particular script in the core region of the so-called Hasaitic writing culture. Complementing the recent discoveries of zabūr inscriptions from Mleiha (Sharjah, UAE), this inscription buttresses our idea of the emergence of writing in East Arabia in the Hellenistic period.

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两个刻有铭文的葡萄酒双耳罐，来自Thāj，沙特阿拉伯

在沙特阿拉伯Thāj古城外的墓葬中发现了两个双耳罐，上面刻有提到葡萄酒的铭文。其中一种成分的化学分析证实了葡萄酒的存在，更准确地说是红酒。其中一个坟墓的背景信息表明，葡萄酒是葬礼仪式的一部分。一个碑文是阿拉姆语，另一个是南阿拉伯草书或zabūr-in事实上，这是在所谓的哈塞特书写文化的核心地区，这种特殊文字的第一个证明。补充了最近在Mleiha(沙迦，阿联酋)发现的zabūr铭文，这一铭文支持了我们在希腊化时期在东阿拉伯出现文字的观点。

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Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy ARCHAEOLOGY-

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期刊介绍： In recent years the Arabian peninsula has emerged as one of the major new frontiers of archaeological research in the Old World. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy is a forum for the publication of studies in the archaeology, epigraphy, numismatics, and early history of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. Both original articles and short communications in English, French, and German are published, ranging in time from prehistory to the Islamic era.