Article: Himyaritic

Encyclopedia entry: Arabic languages
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      700+ words ... ... comprise North Arabic (or simply Arabic) and South Arabian (or Himyaritic or South Arabic); South Arabian differs sufficiently from ... languages, among others. South Arabian Old South Arabian, or Himyaritic, was the language of people living in the S Arabian Peninsula ...

Article: Caravan Kingdoms
USA Today;  August 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... and craft traditions from the Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. Bronze statues, like the large rearing horse with Himyaritic inscriptions on view, reflect Greco-Roman influence. A bull's head, bust of Athena, and a helmet fashioned as a male ...

Article: Archaologische Berichte aus dem Yemen, vol. 9.(Book Review)
The Journal of the American Oriental Society;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... excavation in September 1999 at [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] / [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] illuminates fourteen Himyaritic burials and their customs. Ten "Grabkisten" (in German more specifically "Steinplattengraber") contained extended dorsally ...

Article: Planar works of old Yemen.(ARTS & CULTURE)(ART)
The Washington Times;  July 2, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... the Middle East and Europe. The star of the Himyar section is Dumbarton Oak's enormous, riderless "Rearing Horse With Himyaritic Inscriptions," one of just two extant. Scholars believe the "Head of a Man" mounted nearby, complete with a tightly ...

Encyclopedia entry: Sheba
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      467 words ... ... evidenced by the dam (since collapsed) near Marib, the capital of Sheba, and by the many inscriptions found there. Written in Himyaritic, a Semitic language, the inscribed characters derive from Phoenician writing. Ethiopia conquered (c.AD 525) Sheba ...

Article: Caravan Kingdoms: Yemen and the Ancient Incense Trade.(The World ...
USA Today (Magazine);  August 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... and craft traditions from the Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. Bronze statues, like the large rearing horse with Himyaritic inscriptions on view, reflect Greco-Roman influence. A bull's head, bust of Athena, and a helmet fashioned as a male ...

Encyclopedia entry: inscription
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      700+ words ... ... the 1st millennium BC; examples are the Moabite stone , Phoenician stones and coins, inscriptions near Damascus, and the Himyaritic writing of Yemen (see Sheba ). In the Mediterranean, the earliest epigraphy of Greek culture appears in Aegean civilization ...