DASI

digital archive for the study of pre-islamic arabian inscriptions

Editor: Jérémie Schiettecatte


SITE INFORMATION

Ancient nameʾhgrn
CountryYemen
Geographical areaal-Ḥadaʾ
GovernorateDhamār
KingdomSaba
CoordinatesLatitude: 14° 48' 35"    Longitude: 44° 30' 21"    
Coordinates accuracycertain
Type of siteSettlement
TribeTribe: ḏ-ʾhgrn
StructuresDwelling (indeterminate)
Dwelling (concentrated)
Workshop
Light hydraulic structure (ex. canal, well)
Wells, cisterns
Terrace cultivation
Rampart
Small temple
Graveyard
Rock inscriptions
LanguageSabaic

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RELATED SITES

west of Banī Badda (Unknown)
east of Banī Ḥayān (Unknown)

RELATED MATERIAL

Epigraphs in CSAI
Objects in CSAI

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Antonini 1989Antonini, Sabina 1989. The site of Madinat al-Ahjur and a first typological study of classical South Arabian pottery from the Yemen plateau. Oriens Antiquus, 28: 41-127.
de Maigret 1981: 198-201de Maigret, Alessandro 1981. Two prehistoric cultures and a new Sabaean site in the Eastern Highlands of North Yemen. Raydān, 4: 191-204.
de Maigret 1982de Maigret, Alessandro 1982. Ricerche archeologiche italiane nella Repubblica Araba Yemenita. Notizia di una seconda ricognizione (1981). Oriens Antiquus, 21: 237-253.
de Maigret 1984 b: 431de Maigret, Alessandro 1984. Archaeological Activities in the Yemen Arab Republic. East and West, 34: 431.
Schiettecatte 2011: 251-253Schiettecatte, Jérémie 2011. D'Aden à Zafar. Villes d'Arabie du Sud préislamique. (Orient et Méditerranée, 6). Paris: de Boccard.