DASI

digital archive for the study of pre-islamic arabian inscriptions

Editor: Jérémie Schiettecatte


SITE INFORMATION

Ancient nameḏ-Mṭtm
CountryYemen
Geographical areaRayda
GovernorateʿAmrān
KingdomSaba
CoordinatesLatitude: 15° 54' 5.5"    Longitude: 43° 59' 55.2"    
Coordinates accuracycertain
Type of siteModern site with reemployed inscriptions or artefacts
TribeLineage: ʿgbm
Deitiesʾlmqh bʿl Rymn
ʿṯtr ʾlw Zʿln
ʿṯtr S²rqn
StructuresDwelling (indeterminate)
Light hydraulic structure (ex. canal, well)
Wells, cisterns
Rock inscriptions
LanguageSabaic

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Epigraphs in CSAI
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Grjaznevič 1978: 16Grjaznevič, Petr A. 1978. Materiali ekspedicii P.A. Grjaznevičia 1966-1967 gg. Južnaja Aravija. Pamjiatniki Drevnej Istorii i Kultury. 1. Moscow: Glavnaja redakzija vostočnoj literatury.
Robin 1976 a: 178Robin, Christian J. 1976. Résultats épigraphiques et archéologiques de deux brefs séjours en République Arabe du Yémen. Semitica, 26: 167-188.
Robin 1982 a: 25-32Robin, Christian J. 1982. Les hautes-terres du Nord-Yémen avant l'Islam. (2 vols), (Uitgaven van het Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Instituut te Istanbul, 50). Istanbul: Nederlands Historisch-Archaelogisch Instituut te Istanbul.
Sharafaddīn 1967: 92, fig. 90Sharafaddīn, Aḥmad H. 1967. Taʾrīḫ al-Yaman al-ṯaqāfī. Cairo.