DASI

digital archive for the study of pre-islamic arabian inscriptions

DASI

Hajar Lajiya / Hajar Warrāṣ

Editor: Alessia Prioletta; Jérémie Schiettecatte


Archaeological Map of Shabwa Governorate. Districts of Bayhân and Nisâb ©J.-F. Breton
By kind permission of J.-F. Breton

SITE INFORMATION

Ancient nameḤlzwm
CountryYemen
Geographical areaMarkha
GovernorateShabwa
KingdomHimyar
CoordinatesLatitude: 14° 35' 0.06"    Longitude: 45° 53' 26.63"    
Coordinates accuracycertain
Type of siteSettlement
TribeTribe: Ḥlzwm
Tribe: Tlgg
Lineage: ʾlʿn Wtr
Lineage: Bʿgm ; Bʿgm ʿs³b
Lineage: Ḏrʾ Ḥm
Lineage: Ḏrʾn
Lineage: Hbʾ
Lineage: Hḍrn
Lineage: Ḥd(.)n ʾls²r
Lineage: Ḫtynm
Lineage: Mklytn
Lineage: Rḥbm
Lineage: Rtʿ
Lineage: S¹ḥt
Lineage: S²hr
Deitiesʿṯtr S²rqn
ʾlhw Ḥlzwm
ʾnby
ʿṯtr ḏ-Ḥrm
ʿzzlt
Bʿl Bs³rm ; ḏt-Bs³rm
Bs²mm
Blw
Blw ḏ-Ḥdṯm
ḏt-Bʿdn
ḏt Ġḍrn
ḏt-S²bʿn
Mwtr
ʾs²ms¹-hmw
StructuresDwelling (indeterminate)
Dwelling (concentrated)
Light hydraulic structure (ex. canal, well)
Wells, cisterns
Rampart
Small temple
Graveyard
Rock inscriptions
LanguageSabaic

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bāṭāyiʿ and Arbach 2001: 108-110Bāṭāyiʿ, Aḥmed and Arbach, Mounir 2001. Nouvelles inscriptions du Musée de l'Université d'Aden. Raydān, 7: 103-124.
Breton 1994 c: 146-147Breton, Jean-François 1994. Les fortifications d'Arabie méridionale du 7e au 1er siècle avant notre ère. (Archäologische Berichte aus dem Yemen, 8). Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern.
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.
Doe 1971: 53, 73, 148, 214Doe, D. Brian 1971. Southern Arabia. London: Thames and Hudson.
Prioletta 2010Prioletta, Alessia 2010. I musei dello Yemen 3. Le iscrizioni del wādī Lajiya al Museo dell'Università di Aden. Egitto e Vicino Oriente, 33: 169-186.
Prioletta 2013Prioletta, Alessia 2013. The town of Ḥalzaw (Ḥlzwm) between Qatabān, Radmān and Ḥimyar: an essay on political, religious and linguistic history. Semitica et Classica, 6: 109-130.
Raunig 1997Raunig, Walter 1997. Die Suche nach dem Zentrum von Ausân. Mare Erythraeum, 1: 145-152.
Robin 1991 b: 160Robin, Christian J. 1991. Recension de Archäologische Berichte aus dem Yemen, IV, 1987. Bulletin critique des Annales islamologiques, 8: 158-165.
Robin and Arbach 2013: 126-133Robin, Christian J. and Arbach, Mounir 2013. Premières mentions de dhū-Raydān (vers la fin du Ier s. av. è. chr.). Raydān, 8: 119-134.
Robin and Gajda 1994: 119, 126Robin, Christian J. and Gajda, Iwona 1994. L'inscription du Wādī ʿAbadān. Raydān, 6: 113-137.
Schiettecatte 2011: 162-164Schiettecatte, Jérémie 2011. D'Aden à Zafar. Villes d'Arabie du Sud préislamique. (Orient et Méditerranée, 6). Paris: de Boccard.
al-Sheiba 1987: 25al-Sheiba, Abdullah Hassan 1987. Die Ortsnamen in den altsüdarabischen Inschriften (mit dem Versuch ihrer Identifizierung und lokalisierung). Archäologische Berichte aus dem Yemen, 4: 1-62.