سعيد فايز ابراهيم السعيد

ARCH 403 Ancient North Arabian Epigraphy (3 credit-hours)

The course begins with appearance and evolution of writing in the Arabia peninsula from the late first millennium B. C. It studies old north Arabian scripts: Thamudic, Safaitic, Didanite and Lihyanite. It covers sites, linguistic styles and grammar and philology of these scripts. A study of selected texts is concluded.