DASI

digital archive for the study of pre-islamic arabian inscriptions


SITE INFORMATION

Ancient nameUnknown
CountryYemen
Geographical areaMayfaʿat ʿAns
GovernorateDhamār
CoordinatesLatitude: 14° 24' "    Longitude: 44° 32' "    
Coordinates accuracyapproximate
Type of siteOpen-air sanctuary with rock inscriptions
DeitiesḌrm
Location and toponomyJabayb an-Nūd is located to the north of the village of Ẓalmān and south-west of Hakir
History of researchDiscovered and described by the Yemeni archaeologist Khaldūn Nuʿmān in his PhD, Univ. of Pisa, 2012.
General descriptionRocky hill with rock inscriptions. Eight have been deciphered by Kh. Nuʿman, others are too weathered to be undeciphered. The site may have been a shrine of the god Ḍrm.
ChronologyEight inscriptions were registered by Kh. Nuʿman, dated to the second half of the 1st millennium BCE by their graphy.

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