Chronological framework & historical sources
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Chronological framework & historical sources
(The world of ancient Arabia series, . Documentation for ancient Arabia ; pt. 1)
Liverpool University Press, 1994
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In the first of four "Documentation for Ancient Arabia" volumes, which together will provide interested scholars and students with an essential set of "tools" or works of reference, Professor Kitchen discusses the chronology of ancient Arabia. Previously, the chronology has only been available in scattered sources and this work provides a much-needed comprehensive treatment of this theme. For eastern Arabia, Professor Kitchen gives a useful summary of the chronological evidence, which is mainly in the form of archaeological discovery rather than written historical source materials. His treatment of western Arabia is, however, far more extensive and may be described as a "tour de force". Drawing on the fullest possible range of inscriptions and other documentary historical source material, as well as on existing research, Professor Kitchen comprehensively re-examines the present textual corpus and archaeological evidence to provide an invaluable chronological framework for scholars and students of ancient Arabia. Four chapters cover western Arabia and a fifth draws together existing knowledge of eastern Arabia.
For the ancient kingdom of both east and west, a list of historical sources is included, reign by reign, excluding those regimes known only from coins or from later tradition. Full king-lists are included as well as an index of rulers.
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