DASI

digital archive for the study of pre-islamic arabian inscriptions

DASI

Jabal Khudhrāʾ

Editor: Jérémie Schiettecatte


SITE INFORMATION

Ancient nameḪḏry
CountryYemen
Geographical areaWādī Bayḥān
GovernorateShabwa
KingdomQataban
CoordinatesLatitude: 14° 52' 26"    Longitude: 45° 45' 1"    
Coordinates accuracyapproximate
Type of siteSettlement
TribeTribe: ʾdm
Tribe: Qtbn
Lineage: Ḏrʾn
Lineage: Hrn
Deitiesʾnby
ʿm
ʿm ḏ-ʾwʿlm
ʾṯrt bʿl Mhnn
Bʿl Bs³rm
StructuresDwelling (indeterminate)
Dwelling (concentrated)
Dwelling isolated
Quarry
Light hydraulic structure (ex. canal, well)
Wells, cisterns
Small temple
Graveyard
Paved road
Rock inscriptions
LanguageQatabanic

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Beeston 1995Beeston, Alfred F.L. 1995. Capt. Aylward's Qatabanian Inscriptions. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 6/3: 203-205.
Bowen 1958 a: 56-57, 63Bowen, Richard LeBaron 1958. Irrigation in ancient Qatabân (Beiḥân). Pages 43-132 in Richard LeBaron Bowen and Frank P. Albright (eds). Archaeological Discoveries in South Arabia. With foreword by Wendell Phillips. (Publications of the American Foundation for the Study of Man, 2). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press.
Bowen 1958 b: 7-8Bowen, Richard LeBaron 1958. Archaeological survey of Beiḥân. Pages 3-33 in Richard LeBaron Bowen and Frank P. Albright (eds). Archaeological Discoveries in South Arabia. With foreword by Wendell Phillips. (Publications of the American Foundation for the Study of Man, 2). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press.
Breton et al. 1998: 127-194Breton, Jean-François, Arramond, Jean-Charles, Coque-Delhuille, Brigitte and Gentelle, Pierre 1998. Une vallée aride du Yémen antique. Le wādī Bayhān. Paris: Éditions Recherche sur les Civilisations.