Papers by Alessia Prioletta
Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 2022
Contacts between South Arabia and the Horn of Africa, from the Bronze Age to Islam, 2021
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 2021
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Semitica et Classica, Volumen XIII, 2020
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M. Macdonald (ed.), Languages, scripts and their uses in ancient North Arabia Papers from the Special Session of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held on 5 August 2017, 2018
L. Nehmé, A. Al-Jallad (eds.), To the Madbar and back again. Studies in the Languages, Archaeology, and Cultures of Arabia Dedicated to Michael C.A. Macdonald. Leiden | Boston: Brill, 2018
It is the publication of a new historical Himalitarian inscription (Ma'sal 3) from the Ma'sal sit... more It is the publication of a new historical Himalitarian inscription (Ma'sal 3) from the Ma'sal site in Saudi Arabia, dating from 469 AD, from the reign of Sharhab'il Yakuf and his two sons Abîshamar Nawf and Luhay'at Yanuf, king of Saba ', dhû-Raydân, Hadramawt, Yamnat and their Arabs from the Highland and the Littoral. The text commemorates the success of a military expedition in the Khatt region of East Arabia and Jaww in central Arabia, where the Himyrite army faced Amr son of Aswad, king of Tanukh, unknown to the Arab tradition. Finally, the inscription reports that the Himyarite army conducted a military operation against "the cities of Khatt, the land of Persia".
Le judaïsme de l’Arabie antique. Actes du colloque de Jérusalem (février 2006), Ch. J. Robin (ed.), 2015
South Arabia and its Neighbours. Phenomena of Intercultural Contacts 14. Rencontres Sabéennes (Archäologische Berichte aus dem Yemen 14), 2015
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions, E. Orlin, L. Fried, M. Satlow, and J. Knust (eds.), 2015
O. Elmaz, J.C.E. Watson, Languages of Southern Arabia. Papers from the Special Session of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held on 27 July 2013. Supplement to theProceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 44, 2014
Semitica et Classica 7, Dec 2014
Mnamon. Ancient writing systems in the Mediterranean. A critical guide to electronic resources. Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, 2014
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Papers by Alessia Prioletta
In view of the many isoglosses shared, these languages have been traditionally considered as closely genetically related idioms being part of one linguistic family. On the other hand, they do show many specific traits and the level of diversity among each other is increasing, thanks to new available data and recent analytic studies. Subsequently, some scholars have now argued that the relationship among these languages should be revised, and even questioned the existence of ASA as a language family.
This paper intends to re-examine the relationship among the ASA languages through the comparative presentation of the main grammatical phenomena and the assessment of the most relevant shared features of these idioms.
Tuttavia, queste popolazioni si distinguono soprattutto dalle altre culture dell’Arabia e del vicino Oriente antico per il loro enorme corpus epigrafico, che conta più di 11.000 iscrizioni ed è quindi la collezione di documenti epigrafici più grande del mondo semitico.
Questi testi, incisi su una straordinaria varietà di supporti e materiali (pietra, legno, bronzo) sono scritti in quattro lingue diverse ma apparentate, rappresentative dei regni principali dell’Arabia meridionale: Sabaʾ, Maʿīn, Qatabān e Ḥaḍramawt.
Pur avendo lingue diverse, tuttavia, i sudarabici impiegarono un unico sistema di scrittura alfabetica, sviluppatosi poi in due grafie diverse, che conobbero un’evoluzione indipendente e furono utilizzate per scopi e su supporti diversi: la scrittura formale (monumentale o maiuscola) e quella informale (minuscola o corsiva). La scrittura formale, di cui abbiamo le testimonianze più numerose, è regolare, geometrica ed esteticamente bella, e fu usata su supporti durevoli e destinati ad essere esposti; la scrittura informale, incisa su materiale deperibile come bastoncini di legno e steli di palma ebbe, invece, un uso prevalentemente privato.
The DASI project seeks to gather all known pre-Islamic Arabian epigraphic material into a comprehensive online database which can be accessed by scholars from anywhere in the world.