Julius Euting

Diary of a Journey Through Inner Arabia, 1883-1884

Mr William Facey, Mr Michael Macdonald (Herausgeber)

Mr Julius Euting (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

684 Seiten

2025
Arabian Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
9781911487852 (ISBN)

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Julius Euting (1839–1913), a key Semitic scholar, made vital contributions during his 1883 Arabian expedition with Charles Huber. This book presents Euting’s detailed notebooks and original watercolours in English for the first time, along with William Facey’s introduction and a reassessment of Euting’s role in the Tayma Stele discovery.

Julius Euting (1839–1913), a pioneering German scholar, made significant contributions to Punic, Hebrew, and Aramaic studies. After moving to Strasbourg in 1872, Euting embarked on a perilous 1883 expedition to northern Arabia with Charles Huber, aiming to collect ancient texts and investigate archaeological sites. Despite a strained relationship, Euting’s detailed notebooks, rich with observations, anecdotes, and original watercolours, provide a crucial record of Aramaic and Nabataean inscriptions. This book presents Euting’s work in English for the first time, featuring his artwork and William Facey's introduction, which re-evaluates Euting’s role in the discovery of the Tayma Stele and contextualises his journey in 19th-century Arabian exploration.

Julius Euting (1839–1913) was one of the foremost Semitic epigraphists of his generation. A colourful character with an adventurous streak, he set out from Damascus in 1883 with the French-Alsatian explorer, Charles Huber, on a dangerous expedition into the deserts of northern Arabia in quest of ancient inscriptions and graffiti. Along the way, Euting kept a meticulous record of his many discoveries in notebooks and sketchbooks, in which he put his artistic talent to prolific use. This graphic and personal record, never before published in English, includes the story of how the famous Tayma Stele was discovered and how the first thorough record of the Nabataean inscriptions at Mada’in Salih was made. It is a travel account that entitles Euting to a prominent place among 19th-century explorers of Arabia.

Erscheinungsdatum	10.10.2024
Verlagsort	Surbiton
Sprache	englisch
Maße	200 x 258 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Naher Osten
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Asien
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-13	9781911487852 / 9781911487852
Zustand	Neuware