DASI

digital archive for the study of pre-islamic arabian inscriptions

Editor: Jérémie Schiettecatte


Archaeological Map of Shabwa Governorate. Districts of Bayhân and Nisâb ©J.-F. Breton
By kind permission of J.-F. Breton

SITE INFORMATION

Ancient nameUnknown
CountryYemen
Geographical areaNiṣāb
GovernorateShabwa
KingdomAwsan
Himyar
CoordinatesLatitude: 14° 23' 17.225"    Longitude: 46° 28' 10.042"    
Coordinates accuracycertain
Type of siteSettlement
TribeLineage: Ḏrḥn
Deitiesʾnby
ʿm
ʿṯtr
ḏt-Ṣntm
Ḥrmn
StructuresDwelling (indeterminate)
Dwelling (concentrated)
Fortress
Small temple
Rock inscriptions
LanguageSabaic

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Breton and Bāfaqīh 1993Breton, Jean-François and Bāfaqīh, Muḥammad ʿA. 1993. Trésors du Wādī Duraʾ (République du Yémen). Fouilles franco-yémenites de la nécropole de Hajar am-Dhaybiyya. Paris: Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner.
Pirenne 1981Pirenne, Jacqueline 1981. Deux prospections historiques au sud-Yémen. Raydān, 4: 205-248.