An onomastic index of the Hadramitic inscriptions (7th century BCE - 4th century CE)

Includes bibliographical references.

This volume offers an index of proper names recorded in the Ḥaḍramitic (Ancient South Arabian) inscriptions spanning from the 7th BCE to the 4th century CE. It follows the two books published in this collection in 2022 and 2024 (Arabia Antica 17/III, 18) on onomastic index of the Minaic inscriptions dating back to the 8th-6th and 6th-1st BCE thereby presenting an updated, comprehensive collection of the names attested in the whole corpus of Hadramitic formal inscriptions. This index includes around 1,500 proper names—spanning kings, individuals, social groups, deities, places, and months —along with their epigraphic occurrences. This onomastic collection serves as a resource for both linguistic reflection and historical reconstruction, referring to a place of kingdom of Ḥaḍramawt in South Arabian history and its external relations.

It covers the expansion of the Ḥaḍramawt kingdom over Ẓufār region in Oman its pivotal role in the incense trade with the Indian ocean. An introductory overview outlines the historical background, textual foundations and main features of this onomastic corpus, while a glossary of key political, social and religious figures provides further historical context for the onomastics. [Publisher's text]

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