Editor: Jérémie Schiettecatte
| Ancient name | Mrdʿ |
| Country | Yemen |
| Geographical area | Wādī al-Jūba |
| Governorate | Maʾrib |
| Kingdom | Saba |
| Coordinates | Latitude: 15° 4' 22.3" Longitude: 45° 17' 45.8" |
| Type of site | Settlement |
| Tribe | Tribe: Qtbn Tribe: ḏ-Ṭrqy Lineage: ʾlm Lineage: Hṣ[.]ḥ Lineage: Krhm Lineage: S¹ḥr Lineage: Tnzbn |
| Deities | ʾlmqh ʿṯtr ʿm ʿm ḏ-Ys¹rm ʿm ḏ-S²qr ʾnby Ḥwkm ḏt-Bʿdn ḏt-Ḥmym ḏt-Ṣntm ḏt-Ẓhrn ḏt-Rḥbn |
| Structures | Dwelling (indeterminate) Dwelling (concentrated) Workshop Light hydraulic structure (ex. canal, well) Wells, cisterns Rampart Small temple Graveyard Rock inscriptions |
| Language | Sabaic |
| Epigraphs
in CSAI Objects in CSAI |
| Breton 1994 c: 18, 115-116 | Breton, 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. |
| De Moulins, Phillips and Durrani 2003: 218 | de Moulins, Dominique, Phillips, Carl S. and Durrani, Nadia 2003. The archaeobotanical record of Yemen and the question of Afro-Asian contacts. Pages 213–228 in Katharina Neumann, Ann Butler and Stephanie Kahlheber (eds). Food, Fuel and Fields. (Progress in African Archaeobotany, Africa Praehistorica, 15). Cologne: Heinrich-Barth-Institut. |
| Edens and Wilkinson 1998: 94-95 | Edens, Christopher and Wilkinson, Tony J. 1998. Southwest Arabia during the Holocene: recent archaeological developments. Journal of World Prehistory, 12/1: 55-119. |
| Glanzman and Ghaleb 1987 | Glanzman, William D. and Ghaleb, Abdu O. 1987. Site Reconnaissance in the Yemen Arab Republic, 1984. The stratigraphic probe at Hajar ar-Rayhani. (The Wadi al-Jubah archaeological project, 3). Washington D.C.: American Foundation for the Study of Man. |
| Grolier, Brinkmann and Blakely 1996: 384 | Grolier, Maurice, Brinkmann, Robert and Blakely, Jeffrey A. 1996. Environmental research in support of archaeological investigations in the Yemen Arab Republic, 1982-1987. Ed. by William C. Overstreet and Jeffrey A. Blakely. (The Wadi al-Jubah Archaeological Project, 5). Washington D.C: American Foundation for the Study of Man. |
| Hesse 1996 | Hesse, Brian 1996. The Hajar ar-Rayhani fauna. A first look at Yémen's Iron Age pastoral economy. Pages 103-122 in Joe D. Seger (ed.). Retrieving the past. Essays on archaeological research and methodology in honor of Gus W. Van Beek. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns. |
| Schiettecatte 2011: 128-130 | Schiettecatte, Jérémie 2011. D'Aden à Zafar. Villes d'Arabie du Sud préislamique. (Orient et Méditerranée, 6). Paris: de Boccard. |
| al-Sheiba 1987: 31 | al-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. |
| Toplyn 1984: 15-16, 33, 64-65 | Toplyn, Michael R. 1984. Site reconnaisance in North Yemen 1982. (The Wadi al-Jubah Archaeological Project, 1). Washington: American Foundation for the Study of Man. |
| Wissmann and Höfner 1952: 39 | Wissmann, Hermann von and Höfner, Maria 1952. Beiträge zur historischen Geographie des vorislamischen Südarabien. (Abhandlungen der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Klasse, 4). Mainz: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur / Wiesbaden: Steiner. |