DASI

digital archive for the study of pre-islamic arabian inscriptions

Editor: Jérémie Schiettecatte


SITE INFORMATION

Ancient nameUnknown
CountryYemen
Geographical areaal-Hajara
GovernorateṢaʿda
KingdomSaba
CoordinatesLatitude: 17° 15' 00"    Longitude: 43° 27' 00"    
Coordinates accuracyapproximate
Type of siteArea with rock inscriptions
TribeTribe: ʾʿbs
Tribe: ʾbqrn
Tribe: ʾḥnb
Tribe: Ḫwln Gddn
Tribe: S²brqtn
Tribe: Ys²bmtn
Lineage: S¹ḫymm
Deitiesʾlh-Ḫṣfn
ʿṯtr
ʿṯtr ḏ-Rḥbm
ʿṯtr ḏ-Ḥḍrn
ʿṯtr ḏ-Kdbn w-Lḥyʿṯt
StructuresLight hydraulic structure (ex. canal, well)
Wells, cisterns
Fortress
Rock inscriptions
LanguageSabaic

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RELATED MATERIAL

Epigraphs in CSAI
Objects in CSAI

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Robin 1976 a: 168-169, 188-193Robin, Christian J. 1976. Résultats épigraphiques et archéologiques de deux brefs séjours en République Arabe du Yémen. Semitica, 26: 167-188.
Robin 1982 a: 2-10Robin, 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.
Robin 2014: 164-166, 183Robin, Christian J. 2014. Sabaʾ et la Khawlān du Nord (Khawlān Gudādān): l'organisation et la gestion des conquêtes par les royaumes d'Arabie méridionale. Pages 156-203 in Alexander V. Sedov (ed.). Arabian and Islamic studies. A collection of papers in honour of Mikhail Borishovich Piotrovskij on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Moskow.