Category Archives: Archaeology and Antiquities

Al-Jallad on Pre-Islamic Arabian Inscriptions

Archaeology and Antiquities, Jordan, Languages, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Scholars, Yemen, YouTube Watch

One of the foremost scholars of the pre-Islamic languages and inscriptions of the Arabian Peninsula is Dr. Ahmad al-Jallad. Here is a Youtube video of a lecture he gave at Princeton University in 2019. I attended the lecture, along with the South Arabic scholar Christian Robin. For a talk now online of a lecture he gave in Kuwait the same year, click here. Al-Jallad edited the journal Arabian Epigraphic Notes while he was at Leiden University. To follow Dr. al-Jallad’s work on Safaitic, check out the Facebook site.

Iran Exhibition in London

Archaeology and Antiquities, Art, Calligraphy, Contemporary Art, Iran, Miniatures

There is a new exhibit on Iran at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London through 12 September. If you cannot make it to the exhibition, there is a brief trailer. You can also learn about the exhibition here and there is a slide show of 15 objects over 5,000 years here.

One of the rather silly parts of the coverage of the event on the website is having images with a woman or two women (perhaps to encourage masks…) observing the items, as in the following.