DASI

digital archive for the study of pre-islamic arabian inscriptions

DASI

Būsān

Editor: Jérémie Schiettecatte


Būsān
(c) Schiettecatte - CNRS

SITE INFORMATION

Ancient nameBʾs¹n
CountryYemen
Geographical areaDhamār
GovernorateDhamār
KingdomSaba
Himyar
CoordinatesLatitude: 14° 47' 29.4"    Longitude: 44° 27' 18.8"    
Coordinates accuracycertain
Type of siteSettlement
DeitiesWd
Wdm
StructuresDwelling (indeterminate)
Dwelling isolated
Light hydraulic structure (ex. canal, well)
Large hydraulic structure (ex. dam)
Wells, cisterns
Terrace cultivation
Rock inscriptions
LanguageSabaic

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Epigraphs in CSAI
Objects in CSAI

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Avanzini 1985Avanzini, Alessandra 1985. Problemi storici della regione di al-Ḥadāʾ nel periodo preislamico e nuove iscrizioni. Pages 53-115 in Pelio Fronzaroli (ed.). Studi Yemeniti. (Quaderni di semitistica, 14). Florence: Istituto di linguistica e di lingue orientali, Università di Firenze.
Barbanes 2000: 218Barbanes, Eleanor 2000. Domestic and defensive architecture on the Yemen plateau: eighth century BCE - sixth century CE. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 11/2: 207-222.
Noman 2012: 17, 53Noman, Khaldon 2012. A Study of south Arabian Inscriptions from the region of Dhamār (Yemen). (PhD, Università di Pisa). 2016/05/10; https://etd.adm.unipi.it/theses/available/etd-08112012-151251/.
al-Sheiba 1987: 17al-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.
Wilkinson and Gibson 1997Wilkinson, Tony J. and Gibson, McGuire 1997. Dhamar Project. Pages 27-34 in William M. Sumner. The Oriental Institute 1996-1997 Annual Report. (Oriental Institute Annual Reports). Chicago: The University of Chicago. 2015/05/27; https://oi.uchicago.edu/about/annual-reports/oriental-institute-1996-1997-annual-report. 2015/05/27; http://oi.uchicago.edu/sites/oi.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/shared/docs/ar/91-00/96-97/96-97_Dhamar.pdf.
Wissmann 1964 a: 402Wissmann, Hermann von 1964. Zur Geschichte und Landeskunde von Alt-Südarabien. Sammlung Eduard Glaser. 3. (Sitzungsberichte der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 246). Vienna: Böhlaus.