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Strabo, Book XVI, Chapter 4, 22-24• Huntington, IN: Our Sunday Visitor Publishing | Sharaffadin 42, Le Museon, 3-4, 1967, Pp |
Strabo described the custom in south Arabia which permitted women to have many husbands provided they were all brothers.
Most of the information about south Arabia reported by Strabo probably came straight from the Roman expedition | Beeston Some Observations on Greek and Latin Data Relating to South Arabia in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol |
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Philby,The background of Islam: Being a sketch of Arabian history in pre-Islamic timesWhitehead Morris Alexandira, Egypt ; 1st edition January 1 1947 p | Albert Jamme,inscription from Mahram Biqlis p |
Other news of which Strabo was also the source, typical of the Romans' opinion of their own cultural superiority appears on the curious systems of how south Arabia's regal power was transferred and on its inhabitants' unorthodox sexual habits.
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