DASI

digital archive for the study of pre-islamic arabian inscriptions

Editor: Jérémie Schiettecatte


SITE INFORMATION

Ancient nameTʿrmn
CountryYemen
Geographical areaBilād al-Rūs
GovernorateṢanʿāʾ
KingdomSaba
CoordinatesLatitude: 14° 57' 52"    Longitude: 44° 17' 52.48"    
Coordinates accuracycertain
Type of siteModern site with reemployed inscriptions or artefacts
TribeTribe: Ḏmr ʾrbʿw Qs²mm
Lineage: Ḏrnḥ
Deitiesʿṯtr-S²rqn
Wgl
S¹mydʿ
ʿṯtr ʿzzm ḏ-Gʾwbm bʿl mḥrmn Ṭrr
ḏt Bʿdnm
Rymn
S²ms¹m
StructuresDwelling (indeterminate)
Dwelling (concentrated)
Light hydraulic structure (ex. canal, well)
Wells, cisterns
Terrace cultivation
Building with political function
Rampart
Rock inscriptions
LanguageSabaic
General descriptionThe site is located 3km from the Yislaḥ pass in E-N-E direction.

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north-east of Bayt as-Ṣaʾidī (Unknown)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Robin 1987 c: 118, 125-126Robin, Christian J. 1987. L'inscription Ir 40 de Bayt Ḍabʿân et la tribu Ḏmry. Appendice: Les inscriptions Gl 1192, Gl 1197 et Gr 27. Pages 113-157 in Christian J. Robin and Muḥammad ʿA. Bāfaqīh (eds). Ṣayhadica. Recherches sur les inscriptions de l'Arabie préislamique offertes par ses collègues au professeur A.F. L. Beeston. (Arabie préislamique, 1). Paris: Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner.
Robin 1991 b: 160Robin, Christian J. 1991. Recension de Archäologische Berichte aus dem Yemen, IV, 1987. Bulletin critique des Annales islamologiques, 8: 158-165.
al-Sheiba 1987: 19al-Sheiba, Abdullah Hassan 1987. Die Ortsnamen in den altsüdarabischen Inschriften (mit dem Versuch ihrer Identifizierung und lokalisierung). Archäologische Berichte aus dem Yemen, 4: 1-62.