New Research in Archaeology and Epigraphy of South Arabia and its Neighbors. Proceedings of the “Rencontres sabéennes 15” Held in Moscow, May 25th – 27th, 2011.

New Research in Archaeology and Epigraphy of South Arabia and its Neighbors. Proceedings of the “Rencontres sabéennes 15” Held in Moscow, May 25th – 27th, 2011.

Editor: Sedov Alexander
Preface: Sedov Alexander

Москва, 2012, 416 p.

International conference “Rencontres sabéennes 15” held in Moscow between May 25th – 27th, 2011 was organized by the State Museum of Oriental Art (Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation) and the Institute of Oriental Studies (Russian Academy of Sciences) under the title “New Research in Archaeology and Epigraphy of South Arabia and its Neighbors”. More than 40 scholars from Russia, Austria, Germany, France, Italy, USA and Yemen participated in the conference delivering papers and taking part in the discussions. The first day of the conference was hosted by the Institute of Oriental Studies (Russian Academy of Sciences), and two other working days were held at the State Museum of Oriental Art. The present volume of the Proceedings of the International conference, which was supplemented with papers not presented at the symposium, is dedicated to the memory of Prof. Alessandro de Maigret, the head of the Italian Archaeological Mission to the Republic of Yemen and one of the founders of “Rencontres sabéennes”, which first session was organized in September 1993 in Aix-en-Provence (France). The book contains the List of Abbreviations and Preface by A. Sedov.