Julius Euting
Diary of a Journey Through Inner Arabia, 1883-1884
Published on 19. May 2025
Book
Hardback
684 pages
978-1-911487-85-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Surbiton
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Medina Publishing Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 282 mm
Width: 214 mm
Thickness: 78 mm
Weight
3850 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-911487-85-2 (9781911487852)
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Persons
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.