DASI

digital archive for the study of pre-islamic arabian inscriptions

Editor: Jérémie Schiettecatte


SITE INFORMATION

Ancient nameUnknown
CountryYemen
Geographical areaal-Sawd
GovernorateʿAmrān
KingdomSaba
CoordinatesLatitude: 15° 50' 26"    Longitude: 43° 46' 22"    
Coordinates accuracyapproximate
Type of siteModern site with reemployed inscriptions or artefacts
TribeTribe: Bklm
Deitiesʿṯtr
ʿṯtr bʿl Mḏbʾ
Hbs¹
Nws²m
Tʾlb Rymm
StructuresRock inscriptions
LanguageSabaic

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NOTES

Ruwaʾ is located near Kurbat, between ʿAmrān and Ḥāz.

RELATED MATERIAL

Epigraphs in CSAI
Objects in CSAI

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Mordtmann and Mittwoch 1931: 51Mordtmann, Johannes H. and Mittwoch, Eugen 1931. Sabäische Inschriften. Rathjens-v. Wissmannsche Südarabischen-Reise. 1. Hamburg: Friederichsen, De Gruyter.
Robin 1976 a: 171Robin, Christian J. 1976. Résultats épigraphiques et archéologiques de deux brefs séjours en République Arabe du Yémen. Semitica, 26: 167-188.
Robin 1982 a: pl. 62aRobin, Christian J. 1982. Les hautes-terres du Nord-Yémen avant l'Islam. (2 vols), (Uitgaven van het Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Instituut te Istanbul, 50). Istanbul: Nederlands Historisch-Archaelogisch Instituut te Istanbul.