Editor: Jérémie Schiettecatte
| Ancient name | Ytrm |
| Country | Yemen |
| Geographical area | Dhamār |
| Governorate | Dhamār |
| Kingdom | Ḥimyar |
| Coordinates | Latitude: 14° 35' 46.8" Longitude: 44° 41' 27.3" |
| Coordinates accuracy | certain |
| Type of site | Modern site with reemployed inscriptions or artefacts |
| Tribe | Tribe: S²ddm Yhqbḍ Lineage: Ḏrḥn Rdmm Lineage: S¹mhs¹mʿ |
| Deities | ʿṯtr S²rqn ʿṯtr ḏ-Ẓhr Ys¹r ʿṯtr ḏ-ʾlmm ḏt-Bʿdn ḏt-Ḥmym Wd ʾb |
| Structures | Dwelling (indeterminate) Dwelling (concentrated) Rampart Rock inscriptions |
| Language | Sabaic |
| Location and toponomy | Al-Aqmâr is located 31 km east of Dhamâr and 25 km north west of Radaʿ. Today's village extends at the foot of an escarpment. An inscription discovered on site, Av. Aqmar 1, mentions hgr Ytrm, “the city of Ytrm”, probably the ancient name of the site (see Robin 1987: 139). |
| History of research | 1985: visit and description by A. Avanzini. |
| General description | The ancient site is only documented in the ancient inscriptions reused in al-Aqmâr. In the 1st cent. AD, a large domestic building, the house Yfʿm, was built (Av. Aqmar 2). In the 2nd century, Av. Aqmar 1 mentions the construction or repairing of a tower-house, Ryʿm. At that time, the site was under the authority of the ḥimyarite king and its vassals, the qayls of the tribe of S²ddm. Two deities, ʿṯtr ḏ-ʾlmm and ʿṯtr ḏ-Ẓhr Ys¹r were worshipped in Baynûn and al-Aqmâr only and can be considered as the deities of the tribe of S²ddm. |
| Chronology | Four inscriptions from the site are dated according to their palaeography between the 1st-3rd centuries CE. One of them, Av. Aqmar 1, is dated to the kingdom of Ys¹rm Yhṣdq, king of Sabaʾ and dhû-Raydân and of his sons S²mr and Lʿzm, in 130 AD. |
| Epigraphs
in CSAI Objects in CSAI |