%0 Book Section %T Snake, copper and water in south-eastern Arabian religion during the Iron Age: the Bithnah and Masāfi evidence. In British Foundation for the Study of Arabia %+ ARCHEORIENT - Environnements et sociétés de l'Orient ancien (Archéorient) %+ Centre de Recherche en Archéologie, Archéosciences, Histoire (CReAAH) %+ Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO) %+ Travaux et recherches archéologiques sur les cultures, les espaces et les sociétés (TRACES) %A Benoist, Anne %A Le Carlier de Veslud, Cécile %A Goy, Julie %A Degli Esposti, Michele %A Armbruster, Barbara %A Attalaelmanan, G %@ 9781407313993 %B Pre-Islamic South Arabia and its Neigbours : New Developments of Research. Proceedings of the 17th Rencontres Sabéennes held in Paris, 6-8 June 2013 %E Mounir Arbach and Jérémie Schiettecatte %S BAR International Series %V 2740 %P 21-36 %8 2015 %D 2015 %Z Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and PrehistoryBook sections %X Excavations of two Iron Age cultic sites at Bithnah andMasāfī (Fujairah, United Arab Emirates) have provideddata documenting cultic rituals dedicated to a divinityrepresented as a snake practised by south-eastern Arabianpopulations during the Iron Age (1200-300 BC). On thebasis of archaeological data as well as of fi rst resultsobtained by chemical studies, a possible connectionbetween the attributions of the deity represented by thesnake and the regional economic background, in whichcopper and water might have played a major rule isdiscussed by the authors. %G English %L hal-02559741 %U https://univ-rennes.hal.science/hal-02559741 %~ SHS %~ UNIV-NANTES %~ UNIV-TLSE2 %~ UNIV-RENNES1 %~ UR2-HB %~ CNRS %~ UNIV-LYON2 %~ UNIV-LEMANS %~ EHESS %~ TRACES %~ OSUR %~ CREAAH %~ ARCHEORIENT %~ MOM %~ UR1-HAL %~ UR1-SHS %~ UNIV-RENNES2 %~ TEST-UR-CSS %~ UNIV-RENNES %~ TERRAE %~ UDL %~ UR1-ENV %~ NANTES-UNIVERSITE %~ UNIV-NANTES-AV2022