New Books on Epigraphy and History of Ancient South Arabia

Recent publications by Mounir Arbach and Irene Rossi in the Arabia Antica series provide new contributions to the study of Ancient South Arabian history and epigraphy:

The City-States of the Jawf at the Dawn of Ancient South Arabian History (8th–6th centuries BCE)

M. Arbach & I. Rossi. 3 vols., 2022, pp. 242 + 500 + 144, Arabia Antica 17, Rome: «L’Erma» di Bretschneider

Volume I presents a historical synthesis; Volume II gathers the corpus of inscriptions, providing a philological edition; Volume III provides an index of lexical and onomastic items from the texts.

An Onomastic Index of the Minaic Inscriptions (6th–1st centuries BCE)

M. Arbach & I. Rossi, 2024, 218 pp., Arabia Antica 18, Rome: «L’Erma» di Bretschneider

An updated and systematic index of names attested in the corpus of Minaic inscriptions, offering a key resource for researchers working on Ancient South Arabian – and more broadly Semitic – onomastics and epigraphy.