A Note on the Trident Mark, Stone Worship and Cult Practices in SE-Arabia
| dc.contributor.author | Overlaet, Bruno | |
| dc.contributor.author | Jasim, Sabah | |
| dc.contributor.author | Yousif, Eisa | |
| dc.coverage.spatial | Arabia | en_US |
| dc.coverage.temporal | pre-Islamic (3rd cent. BCE - 3rd century CE) | en_US |
| dc.date | 2024-08-07 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-01-15T15:59:23Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-01-15T15:59:23Z | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Overlaet, B., Jasim, S., & Yousif, E. (2024). A note on the trident mark, stone worship and cult practices in SE‐Arabia. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1111/aae.12255 10 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1600-0471 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0905-7196 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://orfeo.belnet.be/handle/internal/13546 | |
| dc.description | The worship of baetyls in antiquity is well documented in the Near East and the Mediterranean, archaeologically as well as historically. While such practices were also common in South-East Arabia, the archaeological information on it is still very limited. A boulder carved with a "trident" (a mark familiar from local Abiel coin issues), which came to light at the site of Mleiha, has a circular cavity on the side similar to those visible on stones and on an eagle statue from contemporary ed-Dur. This association suggests a religious context for the Mleiha petroglyph and thus a possible identification as a baetyl. The archaeological evidence for stone worship and associated cult practices from the SE-Arabian Mleiha / PIR A-C period (3rd century BCE - 3rd century CE) is reviewed and compared with ethnographic parallels and information from, among others sources, the Kitāb al-aṣnām (Book of Idols) by Hisham ibn al-Kalbi (737-819 CE). | en_US |
| dc.language | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Wiley | en_US |
| dc.title | A Note on the Trident Mark, Stone Worship and Cult Practices in SE-Arabia | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
| dc.subject.frascati | History and Archaeology | en_US |
| dc.audience | Scientific | en_US |
| dc.subject.free | baetyl | en_US |
| dc.subject.free | pre-Islamic religion | en_US |
| dc.subject.free | Mleiha | en_US |
| dc.subject.free | ed-Dur | en_US |
| dc.subject.free | SE-Arabia | en_US |
| dc.source.title | Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy | en_US |
| dc.source.volume | 35 | en_US |
| dc.source.issue | 2024 | en_US |
| dc.source.page | 1-10 | en_US |
| dc.relation.project | archaeological excavations at Mleiha, UAE, SE-Arabia | en_US |
| Orfeo.peerreviewed | Yes | en_US |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/aae.12255 |