Editor: Jérémie Schiettecatte
| Ancient name | Mṭrtm |
| Country | Yemen |
| Geographical area | Nihm |
| Governorate | Ṣanʿāʾ |
| Kingdom | Saba |
| Coordinates | Latitude: 15° 39' 57" Longitude: 44° 27' 25" |
| Coordinates accuracy | certain |
| Type of site | Settlement |
| Tribe | Tribe: ḏ-Mṭrtm Lineage: ʾws¹krb Lineage: S¹ḫymm |
| Deities | ʿṯtr S²rqn Tʾlb Rymm S²ms¹-hmw |
| Structures | Dwelling (indeterminate) Dwelling (concentrated) Light hydraulic structure (ex. canal, well) Plot of cultivated land Rock inscriptions |
| Language | Sabaic |
| General description | The modern village of Quṭra is located NE of Sanʿāʾ. |
| Epigraphs
in CSAI Objects in CSAI |
| Beeston 1981 a: 21-25 | Beeston, Alfred F.L. 1981. Miscellaneous Epigraphic Notes. Raydān, 4: 9-28. |
| Breton, Robin and Audouin 1981: 40-42 | Breton, Jean-François, Robin, Christian J. and Audouin, Rémy 1981. Nord-Yémen: un patrimoine menacé. Archéologia, 160/Novembre: 36-43. |
| Bron 1988 a: 42 | Bron, François 1988. Inscriptions du Maḥram Bilqîs (Mārib) au Musée de Bayḥān. Raydān, 5: 39-51. |
| al-Garoo 1986: 276-277 | al-Garoo, Asmahan 1986. Les antiquités du Yémen dans l'œuvre de al-Hamdânī. (PhD, Université Paris I). |
| Halloun 1987 | Halloun, Moèn 1987. Some Notes on MAFRAY: Quṭra 1. Le Muséon, 100: 176-180. |
| al-Ḥiwālī 1967 b: 176 | al-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: 239-240 | al-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. |
| al-Ḫaṭīb 1948: 60 | al-Khaṭīb, Muḥibb ad-Dīn 1948. al-Iklīl min aḫbār al-Yaman w-ansāb Ḥimyar, taṣnīf lisān al-Yaman Abī Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Yaʿqūb al-Hamdānī, al-kitāb al-ʿāshir. Cairo. |
| Jamme 1981: 106-107 | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1981. Pre-islamic Arabian Miscellanea. Pages 95-112 in Roswitha G. Stiegner (ed.). al-Hudhud. Festschrift Maria Höfner zum 80. Geburtstag. Graz: Karl-Franzens-Universität. |
| Kropp 1998 | Kropp, Manfred 1998. Free and bound prepositions: a new look at the inscription MAFRAY/Qutra 1. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 28: 169-174. |
| Robin 1979 a: 184-190 | Robin, Christian J. 1979. Mission archéologique et épigraphique française au Yémen du Nord en automne 1978. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres: 174-202. |
| Robin 1982 b: 23-24 | Robin, Christian J. 1982. Esquisse d'une histoire de l'organisation tribale en Arabie du Sud antique. Pages 17-30 in Paul Bonnenfant (ed.). La péninsule Arabique d'aujourd'hui. Tome II: Études par pays. Aix-en-Provence: Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur l'Orient arabe contemporain / Paris: Éditions du C.N.R.S.. |