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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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A Safaitic–Greek Graffito by a Shepherd in the Black Desert of Jordan	8
New Byzantine inscriptions from the Land of Moab	7
Towards a New Reference Dataset for Northwest Arabian Pottery: A Preliminary Characterization of the Fabrics, Techniques, Shapes and Decoration of the Pre‐Islamic Pottery From Dadan (Third Millennium	7
An Epigraphical and Archaeological Analysis of an Ottoman‐Arabic Commemorative Inscription at the Military Museum in Ṣanʿāʾ, Yemen	6
Relations Between Sabaʾ and Kamna in the Second Half of the Eighth Century bc in the Light of Two Sabaic Inscriptions	4
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New Nabataean inscriptions from Shkārat el‐Faras, north of Petra	3
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The nature of third‐millennium settlement: The example of al‐Tikha (Rustaq) an Umm an‐Nar site on the Batinah coast of Oman	3
Erratum to “Beyond dots with dates: A landscape approach to the Sohar hinterlands”	3
Sabaeans on the Somali coast	2
From Dilmun to Wādī al‐Fāw: A forgotten desert corridor, c. 2000 BC	2
WITHDRAWAL: Archaeology, Epigraphy and Skyscape: Keys to Understanding Dadanite and Lihyanite Conception of Time	2
A Bronze to Iron Age fishing economy at Kalbāʾ 4 (Emirate of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates)	2
Qaryat al‐Fāw/Qaryatum dhāt Kāhilim: On the identity of the god Kahl	2
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	2
An ʿAqaba/Ayla‐type amphora in the sultanate of Oman	1
Archaeological Geology of Jurash, ʿAsīr Province, Southwestern Saudi Arabia	1
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Ancient and modern inscriptions in the basalt desert: News from the 2023 season of the Badia Epigraphic Survey in north‐east Jordan	1
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Pottery Making in the First Oases: Comparison Between Bat and Bisya Domestic and Tower Assemblages	1
The chronology of Julianos Church, Umm el‐Jimal, Jordan: AMS radiocarbon dates of its synthronon	1
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A First Glance at Pre‐Islamic Pigments in Shells From Salūt (Sultanate of Oman)	1

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Christian Monasticism in Late Antique and Early Islamic East Arabia	1
Heirloom cylinder seals at Mleiha (Sharjah Emirate, UAE)	1
Cave occupations in Southeastern Arabia in the second millennium BCE: Excavation at Mugharat al‐Kahf, North‐Central Oman	1
A note on the trident mark, stone worship and cult practices in Southeast Arabia	1
Lithic and stone industries of Bahra 1, an Ubaid‐related site in northern Kuwait	1
Latin inscriptions from Bāyir (Jordan)	1
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Tribal ties around the cooking fire in South Arabia: Some ethnographic lexical notes	1
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A Sabaic inscription from Wādī al‐Jawf during the Era of Yadaʿʾil Bayyin, son of Yaṯaʿʾamar, King of Sabaʾ	0
Neolithic stone tool and shell bead production from Maṣīrah and Al‐Ḥallāniyah islands (Oman)	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
Breeze of Continuity: New Evidence for the Occupation of Jumeirah Throughout the Islamic Period	0
The Jabal al‐Yamh and Ḥattā Valley survey (Emirate of Dubai, UAE): GIS tools applied to archaeological survey and research	0
Plants and Plant Food on the Failaka Island in the Late Islamic Period. Results of the First Archaeobotanical Investigations at the Kharaib al‐Dasht Site (Kuwait)	0
Bond of allegiance? The three lines on Dilmun seals	0
The Issue of Pre‐Islamic Arabic Christian Poetry Revisited	0
Patterns of pre‐Islamic settlement in the Qumayrah microregion, northern Oman: First results of an archaeological and geological survey	0
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Two Anthropomorphic Stelae Connected With a Platform‐Like Structure in the Area of Ḥimā (Saudi Arabia): New Data From Southwestern Arabia	0
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Ceramic Production at the Khaybar Walled Oasis During the Mid/Late Third–Early Second Millennium BCE : Evidence for a Burnished Ware Horizon in North	0
Re(dis)covering the recent: Surveying settlements and society in central Oman from the 17th to the 20th centuries	0
The inscriptions from the Nabataean necropolis of Mughāyir Shuʿayb	0
The ẓll of ancient Dadān: Ritual and documentary practice	0
Archaeological surveys of a canyon and floodplain in the Tanūf District, North‐Central Oman: Optimised methodology and applications	0
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Twelve years of the ‘Arabian Seashores’ project: How the extensive investigation of coastal Oman changed the paradigm of the Arabian Neolithic	0
Editorial	0
Survey methods and biases in the Al‐Mudhaybi Regional Survey, Sultanate of Oman	0
Minaeans at Ḥimā: The Epigraphic Corpus and Its Historical, Linguistic and Cultural Implications	0
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)	0
What can Nabataean Aramaic tell us about Pre‐Islamic Arabic?	0
Kites of AlUla County and the Ḥarrat ʿUwayriḍ, Saudi Arabia	0
A Palaeo‐Arabic inscription from the Ḥismā Desert (Tabūk region)	0
Characteristics of dried fish stores: Evidence based on an intact pit from Late Islamic Qatar	0
The ‘Entry’ of Iyād Into Tanūkh. Invasion, Migration and Integration in Late Antique North‐Eastern Arabia	0
An Iron Age village in the Hajjar Mountains of Northern Oman: QA 21 in the Qumayrā microregion	0
A ritual building from the Umm an‐Nar settlement, Dahwa 7 in al‐Batinah Plain, Northeast Oman	0
The softstone vessels assemblage from the Long Collective Grave 1 (LCG‐1) at Dibbā al‐Bayah (Sultanate of Oman): A preliminary assessment	0
Documenting Jordan's epigraphic heritage: Preliminary remarks on newly discovered Safaitic inscriptions	0
Exchange networks of the Early Bronze Age Gulf: The imported ceramics from Kalba 4 (United Arab Emirates)	0
Beyond dots with dates: A landscape approach to the Sohar hinterlands	0
Stray cats: Pets or pests? Cats and kittens everywhere in the medieval harbour site of Qalhāt (Oman)	0
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The Bronze Age Tombs of Northwest Arabia: A Chrono‐Typological Study From AlUla and Khaybar, Saudi Arabia	0
Two new Byzantine inscriptions from El‐ʿAynūn (Kerak Governorate; Southern Jordan)	0
European trade ceramics on the Arabian Peninsula 1800–1960	0

Archaeological excavations at Sarūq al‐Ḥadīd‐2022–2023 season: stratigraphy and new absolute chronological sequence of Area G	0
Radiocarbon‐Inferred Population Trajectories for Southeastern Arabia During the Bronze Age	0
Holocene Sea‐Level Changes and the Archaeological Record of Al‐Subiyah, Kuwait Bay	0
An epigraphical and artistic study of four tombstones from the Qāsimī State Era in Yemen	0
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	0
Mapping spatial patterning of Bronze Age towers in Oman according to water flow accumulation	0
Minaeans in the Mediterranean. Reevaluating two Old South Arabian inscriptions from Delos	0
A third century ad rhymed hymn from Yemen: The origins of Arabic poetry and literature?	0
An Unpublished Inscription From the ʾAwām Sanctuary of ʾAlmaqah: New Evidence for a Royal mqtwy and Sabaean Campaigns in the ‘Land of the Abyssinians’	0
Ship, Raft or Camelback? Early Hellenistic Ceramic Imports of the Eastern Mediterranean From the Ancient Caravan City of Thāj, Northeast Saudi Arabia	0
Domestic food practice and vessel‐use at Salūt‐ST1, central Oman, during the Umm an‐Nar period	0