Der zentralarabische Zweig der Weihrauchstraße

Abstract

Die Existenz eines Weges zwischen dem antiken Gerrha -dem wichtigsten Knotenpunkt auf den ostarabischen Handelsstrassen -und Sü darabien ist sowohl aus schriftlichen (1) als auch aus archäologischen (2) Quellen gut bekannt (Fig. 1). Der hier zu behandelnde Abschnitt fü hrte nach allgemeiner Auffassung von H@ ad@ ramawt und Qatab an ü ber Naǧ r an, Qaryat al-F aw, al-'Afl aǧ und al-H abb and aš-Šud@ ayf.

From Dilmun to Wādī al‐Fāw: A forgotten desert corridor, c. 2000 BC

“…The segment from Manwakh to Wādī al-Fāw may, however, be relevant to of the routes through which incense and other articles of trade were brought down from the Yemenite highlands to areas like Qaryat al-Fāw, after the domestication of the dromedary. Bukharin has suggested that a branch of the later incense route from Qaryat al-Fāw ran south to the mouth of Wādī Habb and Wādī al-Shuḍayf (Bukharin, 2007), and this southward route is accepted here as a good candidate for a hypothetical continuation of the Bronze Age network south of al-Fāw (Figure 1). The matter is, however, complicated by the fact that the articles of trade transported (be they frankincense, myrrh, semiprecious stone, precious metals or textiles) as well as where in the south they were available in the early 2nd millennium remain almost entirely unknown.…”