DASI

digital archive for the study of pre-islamic arabian inscriptions

Editor: Jérémie Schiettecatte


SITE INFORMATION

Ancient nameḤrrm
CountryYemen
Geographical areaal-Bayḍāʾ
Governorateal-Bayḍāʾ
KingdomHimyar
CoordinatesLatitude: 14° 12' 42"    Longitude: 45° 20' 19"    
Coordinates accuracycertain
Type of siteHydraulic structure
TribeTribe: Rdmn w-Ḫwln
Lineage: Mʿhr w-ḏ-Ḫwln
Deitiesʿm ḏ-Mbrqm bʿl S¹lym Lmmm
ʿm ḏ-Rymtm bʿl ẓr Nwʿn
ʿṯtr S²rqn
ḏt-Ẓhrn
StructuresLarge hydraulic structure (ex. dam)
Terrace cultivation
Rock inscriptions
LanguageSabaic

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Epigraphs in CSAI
Objects in CSAI

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Robin and Arbach 2009Robin, Christian J. and Arbach, Mounir 2009. L'inscription de fondation du barrage du wādī Ḥarīr (Yémen). Pages 297-306 in Werner Arnold, Michael Jursa, Walter W. Müller and Stephan Procházka (eds). Philologisches und Historisches zwischen Anatolien und Sokotra. Analecta Semitica In memoriam Alexander Sima. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.