%0 Journal Article
%T The changing positions of Zab d's Red Sea port sites Les diff¨¦rents emplacements des ports de Zab d en Mer Rouge.
%A Edward J. Keall
%J Chroniques Y¨¦m¨¦nites
%D 2008
%I 
%X Les chroniqueurs m¨¦di¨¦vaux mentionnent de mani¨¨re confuse les noms des diff¨¦rentes colonies qui, avec le temps, servirent de port d'entr¨¦e ¨¤ la ville de Zab d qui n'¨¦tait pas situ¨¦ en bordure de la Mer Rouge. Des indices peuvent ¨ºtre d¨¦chiffr¨¦s quant ¨¤ ces changements en se basant sur l'¨¦poque ¨¤ laquelle ces chroniques ont ¨¦t¨¦ ¨¦tablies. Mais les t¨¦moignages sont bien plus pr¨¦cieux que la mention ¨¤ une ¨¦poque ant¨¦rieure.La prospection arch¨¦ologique de la c te r¨¦v¨¨le les r¨¦els motifs en observant que les colonies portuaires ont ¨¦t¨¦ forc¨¦es de se d¨¦placer d  ¨¤ un rivage changeant qui rendait inutilisable la pr¨¦c¨¦dente colonie portuaire. Quand celle-ci allait ¨¤ un nouvel emplacement, on lui assignait un nouveau nom. Ce genre d'observations a ¨¦t¨¦ constat¨¦ dans la baie portuaire de Ghulayfiqah ainsi que de al-Fazzah. Le site de ces colonies n'¨¦tait, en g¨¦n¨¦ral, utilis¨¦ que pour une dur¨¦e ne d¨¦passant pas les deux ou trois si¨¨cles. Medieval writers report confusingly the names of different settlements that over time served as ports of entry for the city of Zab d that lay inland from the Red Sea coast. Clues can be drawn concerning these changes by considering the time when these reports were made. Eye witness accounts are clearly far more valuable than the citation of a report from an earlier time. Archaeological scrutiny of the coast reveals the real pattern by observing that port settlements were forced to move in response to a changing shoreline which rendered a former harbour unusable. When the settlement moved to a new locale, a new name was assigned. Observations of this kind have been made in the coastal bays of both Ghulayfiqah and al-Fazzah. Settlement sites were generally occupied for no more than two to three centuries.
%K p¨¨lerinage
%K arch¨¦ologie
%K ports
%K Ras lides
%K Histoire maritime
%K chroniques
%K poterie
%K p¨¦riode pr¨¦islamique
%K p¨¦riode islamique
%U http://cy.revues.org/1678