(Type of publication: article)
L’eau en Arabie
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AT-OeAW-BA-3-27-F-00243
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Authors:
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Robin, Christian
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Book title:
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L’eau en Méditerranée de l’Antiquité au Moyen Âge. Cahiers de la Villa "Kérylos", No. 23, Beaulieu-sur-Mer
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Locality:
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Paris
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Published by
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Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
2012
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Pages:
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247-287
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Language:
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French
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Contents:
This article by Christian Julien Robin is part of the Proceedings of the 22nd colloquium of the Villa Kérylos in Beaulieu-sur-Mer on October 7th and 8th, 2011.
The author deals with the use of water resources in the Arabian Peninsula whose climate is characterised by extreme aridity and very high temperatures. Yet, in many parts of the Arabian Peninsula, rainfall is more abundant and frequent than one would expect. (p. 251)
Special attention is given to facilities for collecting and using water runoff, in particular to the Dam of Ma'rib and its refurbishments in the 5th and 6th centuries CE.
With regard to the dating of the Great Dam, Robin refers to Eduard Glaser's studies made during his third journey to Yemen in 1888 and to his publication of two large inscriptions (GL 554 & GL 618) which commemorate the refurbishments carried out in the mid-5th and 6th centuries respectively (p. 267) - inscriptions whose translations suggested by Eduard Glaser at the end of the 19th century no researcher dared to revise for nearly 100 years. (p. 272)
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