This supplement to "The Pre-Islamic Coinage of Eastern Arabia" presents and analyzes another 426 previously unpublished pre-Islamic coins from Saudi Arabia and the Emirates. Together with the main text, there is total coverage of nearly 1000 coins.

This volume focuses on the period between the conquest of the Achaemenid empire by Alexander the Great and the advent of Islam, dominated in the central regions of the Near East by the Seleucid, the Parthian and the finally the Sasanian dynasties. Historiographically speaking, these periods have traditionally been dealt with by specialists in Classical archaeology, ancient history and late Antiquity. Much of the sense in which these periods represented a continuation of ancient Near Eastern traditions has thereby been lost. Many specialists in the 'late' periods have little awareness of...