The Center has published the second issue of Athirat Journal in collaboration with Brill. This issue contains articles dwelling on the broad theme of “Fauna in Ancient Arabia.” It includes the following contributions: Ostriches in the Syro-Arabian Steppe in the Light of Safaitic Inscriptions and the Accompanying Rock Drawings; A Qatabanic Dedicatory Inscription to Bashamum Yathaʿān; The Eagle in South Arabian Iconography; Ibex in Prehistoric Rock Art in Arabia; Risk and Hope: Snakes and Humans in Southwest Arabia as Understood by Sociocultural Anthropology; Animal Depictions in the Nabatean Arts; Animals in the Rock Art of the Tihama (Saudi Arabia); The Prohibition of Animal Entry at the Awām Temple/Mahram Bilqîs, Marib, Yemen; Arabian Animal Remains from the Bronze Age to the Historical Period: a State of Research; Re-examination of a Sabaic Inscription from Nashq; Bovines in Rock Art in Himã Sites, near Najrān; On the Supposed Meaning of ʾšrʾltg in the Namāra Inscription: A Reassessment of the Evidence; and New Inscription of Yashhurʾīl Mukarrib of Ḥaḍramawt. The articles may be accessed through the link below:
https://brill.com/view/journals/athr/2/1-2/athr.2.issue-1-2.xml
