DASI

digital archive for the study of pre-islamic arabian inscriptions

Editor: Jérémie Schiettecatte


SITE INFORMATION

Ancient nameHkrm
CountryYemen
Geographical areaDhamār
GovernorateDhamār
KingdomHimyar
CoordinatesLatitude: 14° 25' 30.9"    Longitude: 44° 34' 50.4"    
Coordinates accuracycertain
Type of siteSettlement
TribeTribe: ḏ-Rydn
Lineage: ʾṣnʿ
Lineage: ʿrgn
Lineage: ʿwyfm
Lineage: Bhyl
Lineage: ḏ-Ḥgrm
Lineage: Ḏḥlrm
Lineage: Ḏḫrm
Lineage: Fʾrm
Deitiesʿtr ḏ-S³nḥ w-ḏ-S¹mʿm
ʿṯtr S²rqn
ʾs²ms¹-hmw
Wdm
StructuresDwelling (indeterminate)
Dwelling (concentrated)
Light hydraulic structure (ex. canal, well)
Large hydraulic structure (ex. dam)
Wells, cisterns
Rampart
Rock inscriptions
LanguageSabaic

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RELATED MATERIAL

Epigraphs in CSAI
Objects in CSAI

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Beeston 1962 a: 51-52Beeston, Alfred F.L. 1962. Epigraphic and Archaeological Gleanings from South Arabia. Oriens Antiquus, 1: 41-52.
Garbini 1971 a: 303-311Garbini, Giovanni 1971. Iscrizioni sabee da Hakir. Annali dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli, 31/3: 303-311.
al-Garoo 1986: 250-251al-Garoo, Asmahan 1986. Les antiquités du Yémen dans l'œuvre de al-Hamdânī. (PhD, Université Paris I).
al-Ḥiwālī 1967 a: 99, 161, 338, 390al-Ḥiwālī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Akwaʿ 1967. Kitāb al-Iklīl li-lisān al-Yaman abī Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Yaʿqūb al-Hamdānī, al-ǧuzʾ al-ṯānī. Cairo.
al-Ḥiwālī 1967 b: 107, 155, 191al-Ḥiwālī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Akwaʿ 1967. Kitāb al-Iklīl li-lisān al-Yaman abī Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Yaʿqūb al-Hamdānī, al-ǧuzʾ al-ṯāmin. Cairo.
al-Ḥiwālī 1974: 7, 148, 224, 266, 365al-Ḥiwālī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Akwaʿ 1974. Ṣifa ǧazirat al-ʿArab, taʾlīf Lisān al-Yaman al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad al-Hamdānī. Riyāḍ: Manšūrāt Dār al-Yamāma li-l-baḥṯ wa-l-taraǧama wa-l-našr.