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Papers

(The median citation count of Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

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From ‘ovoid jars’ to ‘torpedo jars’: Investigations into bitumen‐lined transport containers in the Gulf and the Indian Ocean in antiquity (second century BCE–third century CE)	7
Dating the pendant burials of north‐west Arabia: First radiometric results from the Khaybar Oasis, Saudi Arabia	7
A Paleo‐Arabic inscription on a route north of Ṭāʾif	5
Kites of AlUla County and the Ḥarrat ʿUwayriḍ, Saudi Arabia	5
The “walled oases” phenomenon. A study of the ramparts in Dūmat al‐Jandal and other pre‐Islamic sites in north‐western Arabia	5
Exploitation of groundwater in the oasis of Masāfī (UAE): A diachronic perspective	4
Cave occupations in Southeastern Arabia in the second millennium BCE: Excavation at Mugharat al‐Kahf, North‐Central Oman	3
Late Islamic water collection systems on Failaka Island: Preliminary results of the Kuwait–Georgian Archaeological Mission in 2018–2019	3
Umm an‐Nar settlement pottery from Dahwa 7 (DH7), northern al‐Batinah, Oman	3
Twelve years of the ‘Arabian Seashores’ project: How the extensive investigation of coastal Oman changed the paradigm of the Arabian Neolithic	3
Iconographic and archaeometric studies on the rock art at Musayqira, Al‐Quwaiyah Governorate, central Saudi Arabia	3
Umm an‐Nar soft‐stone vessel assemblage from Tomb QA 1‐1 (Oman) based on finds recovered from half the tomb	3
The Middle and Late Bronze Age in Central Oman: New Insights from Tawi Said, Al‐Mudhairib and the Wilayat al‐Mudhaybi	3
A Bronze to Iron Age fishing economy at Kalbāʾ 4 (Emirate of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates)	2
A consideration on the interest of a pottery typology adapted to the late Sasanian and early Islamic monastery at al‐Qusur (Kuwait)	2
Evidence for local, regional and interregional exchange networks on Failaka: Some remarks on late Islamic pottery from Kharaib al‐Dasht	2
Exchange networks of the Early Bronze Age Gulf: The imported ceramics from Kalba 4 (United Arab Emirates)	2
Archaeological evidence of an early Islamic monastery in the centre of al‐Qusur (Failaka Island, Kuwait)	2
Dripping divination in pre‐Islamic South Arabia: The oracle sanctuary of Jār al‐Labbā revisited	2
Egyptian Scarabs Discovered on Kuwait’s Failaka Island and Similar Finds from the Gulf Region	2
Two new Byzantine inscriptions from El‐ʿAynūn (Kerak Governorate; Southern Jordan)	1
Latin inscriptions from Bāyir (Jordan)	1
Minaeans in the Mediterranean. Reevaluating two Old South Arabian inscriptions from Delos	1
Dilmun boats on seals, horned figureheads, and the serpent/dragon slaying myth, c. 2050–1500 BC	1
Al‐Khidr site on Failaka Island in the Bronze Age: Pottery perspective	1

From Dilmun to Wādī al‐Fāw: A forgotten desert corridor, c. 2000 BC	1
Stray cats: Pets or pests? Cats and kittens everywhere in the medieval harbour site of Qalhāt (Oman)	1
Copper‐alloy figurines from Tell Abraq (Umm al‐Quwain, UAE) and the circulation of Hellenistic motifs in late pre‐Islamic Arabia (300 bc–300 ad)	1
Set apart from within: Articulated women in commingled tombs from Early Bronze Age Arabia	1
The chronology of Julianos Church, Umm el‐Jimal, Jordan: AMS radiocarbon dates of its synthronon	1
The site of Al‐Qurainiyah: Topography and phases of an early Islamic coastal settlement on Failaka Island	1
Ancient and modern inscriptions in the basalt desert: News from the 2023 season of the Badia Epigraphic Survey in north‐east Jordan	1
A third century ad rhymed hymn from Yemen: The origins of Arabic poetry and literature?	1
Dilmun Boat shaped votive bowls for the Moon‐god Nanna?	1
Documenting Jordan's epigraphic heritage: Preliminary remarks on newly discovered Safaitic inscriptions	1
The nature of third‐millennium settlement: The example of al‐Tikha (Rustaq) an Umm an‐Nar site on the Batinah coast of Oman	1
Failaka Island in the Late Islamic Period. Investigations at the fishing village of Kharaib al‐Dasht	1
Contribution to the geology of Failaka Island, Kuwait: Evidence from sedimentological and petrographic data from the NE part of the island	1
About two seal‐impressed jars from Tell Abraq (Emirate of Umm al‐Quwain). New evidence for intercultural networks in the lower Arabian Gulf in the late 2nd – beginning of the 1st millennium BC	1
Patterns of pre‐Islamic settlement in the Qumayrah microregion, northern Oman: First results of an archaeological and geological survey	1
The Nabataean monumental rock‐cut tombs of Mughāyir Shuʿayb and al‐Aṣīfir in the oasis of al‐Badʿ (Saudi Arabia): Preliminary architectural study and spatial organisation of the necropolis	1
Sabaeans on the Somali coast	1
Recent Excavation Results at Sa’ida Village, Failaka Island	1
Review on Late Pleistocene‐Holocene relative sea‐level changes in Kuwait: New evidence from Failaka island	1
Archaeological surveys of a canyon and floodplain in the Tanūf District, North‐Central Oman: Optimised methodology and applications	1
A Palaeo‐Arabic inscription from the Ḥismā Desert (Tabūk region)	1
Investigating ancient technology and ceramic composition at Al‐Khidr site (Failaka Island, Kuwait): Geochemical analyses of Bronze Age pottery by pXRF and thin‐section petrographic analyses	1
Survey methods and biases in the Al‐Mudhaybi Regional Survey, Sultanate of Oman	0
An ʿAqaba/Ayla‐type amphora in the sultanate of Oman	0
Re(dis)covering the recent: Surveying settlements and society in central Oman from the 17th to the 20th centuries	0
In memoriam: Marta Mierzejewska (1984–2020)	0
A new Qatabanian inscription from the reign of Shammar Yuharʿish dhū‐Raydān and other new data on the history of the towns of Ẓafār and Maryamah at the end of the third century CE	0
The softstone vessels assemblage from the Long Collective Grave 1 (LCG‐1) at Dibbā al‐Bayah (Sultanate of Oman): A preliminary assessment	0
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Excavations at Samahij, Bahrain, and the implications for Christianity, Islamisation and settlement in Bahrain	0
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New Byzantine inscriptions from the Land of Moab	0
A ritual building from the Umm an‐Nar settlement, Dahwa 7 in al‐Batinah Plain, Northeast Oman	0
An epigraphical and artistic study of four tombstones from the Qāsimī State Era in Yemen	0
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The Jabal al‐Yamh and Ḥattā Valley survey (Emirate of Dubai, UAE): GIS tools applied to archaeological survey and research	0
A Sabaic inscription from Wādī al‐Jawf during the Era of Yadaʿʾil Bayyin, son of Yaṯaʿʾamar, King of Sabaʾ	0
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Beyond dots with dates: A landscape approach to the Sohar hinterlands	0
Tribal ties around the cooking fire in South Arabia: Some ethnographic lexical notes	0
Archaeological excavations at Sarūq al‐Ḥadīd‐2022–2023 season: stratigraphy and new absolute chronological sequence of Area G	0
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Heirloom cylinder seals at Mleiha (Sharjah Emirate, UAE)	0
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New Nabataean inscriptions from Shkārat el‐Faras, north of Petra	0
Qaryat al‐Fāw/Qaryatum dhāt Kāhilim: On the identity of the god Kahl	0
Two inscribed wine amphoras from Thāj, Saudi Arabia	0
A note on the trident mark, stone worship and cult practices in Southeast Arabia	0

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The Minaeans after Maʿīn? The latest presently dateable Minaic text and the God of Maʿīn	0
An Iron Age village in the Hajjar Mountains of Northern Oman: QA 21 in the Qumayrā microregion	0
European trade ceramics on the Arabian Peninsula 1800–1960	0
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Erratum to “Beyond dots with dates: A landscape approach to the Sohar hinterlands”	0
Mapping spatial patterning of Bronze Age towers in Oman according to water flow accumulation	0
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Guest editors’ foreword	0
Water installations and transhumance in four new Safaitic inscriptions from Birak al‐Wisād	0
Ancient South arabian inscription BynM 5: A new interpretation and semitic parallels	0
Characteristics of dried fish stores: Evidence based on an intact pit from Late Islamic Qatar	0
What can Nabataean Aramaic tell us about Pre‐Islamic Arabic?	0
The inscriptions from the Nabataean necropolis of Mughāyir Shuʿayb	0
Bond of allegiance? The three lines on Dilmun seals	0
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Archaeological Geology of Jurash, ʿAsīr Province, Southwestern Saudi Arabia	0
Two Anthropomorphic Stelae Connected With a Platform‐Like Structure in the Area of Ḥimā (Saudi Arabia): New Data From Southwestern Arabia	0
Domestic food practice and vessel‐use at Salūt‐ST1, central Oman, during the Umm an‐Nar period	0
Lithic and stone industries of Bahra 1, an Ubaid‐related site in northern Kuwait	0
The Harrah's epigraphic heritage: Arabic graffito from the Black Desert in north‐eastern Jordan referring to the Umayyad caliph Hishām b. ʿAbd al‐Malik	0
Theẓllof ancient Dadān: Ritual and documentary practice	0
Neolithic stone tool and shell bead production from Maṣīrah and Al‐Ḥallāniyah islands (Oman)	0