Explorations in Bible lands during the 19th century - H. V. Hilprecht

DURING 19 Til CENTURY: ARABIA 723
and trained them so admirably that these people brought to
him, as precious trophies, excellent squeezes of all of Halevy's
larger inscriptions from the Jof, also of about one
hundred Oatabanian texts from the country south of Marib,
Castle at Shibam in Hadhramot
and of many other valuable inscriptions, the Qatabanian inscriptions
coming from a region in which no Fairopean had
ever before set foot. This time also Glaser obtained a
number of inscribed stones, which now adorn the Court-