Editor: Jérémie Schiettecatte
| Ancient name | Bynn |
| Country | Yemen |
| Geographical area | Khawlân |
| Governorate | Dhamār |
| Kingdom | Himyar |
| Coordinates | Latitude: 14° 46' " Longitude: 44° 39' " |
| Coordinates accuracy | certain |
| Type of site | Settlement |
| Tribe | Tribes: Qtbyn (nisba) Tribe: S¹bʾyn (nisba) Tribe: S²ddm Tribe: S²ddm Yhqbḍ Tribe: Yhbs²r Tribe: ʾbs²rn (nisba) Lineage: ʾʿyn Lineage: ʿbdm Lineage: ʿqrtm Lineage: ʿrm Lineage: Dhs¹m Lineage: Ḏrḥn Lineage: Khnl Lineage: Ns¹rm Lineage: Qdrn Lineage: S¹lyt Lineage: S¹mhs¹mʿ Lineage: Ws²ḥt Lineage: Yfrʿ Lineage: Ẓwrn |
| Deities | ʾnby ʾnby S²ymn ʿm ʿṯtr ḏ-Ḏbn ʿṯtr ḏ-ʾlmm ʿṯtr ḏ-S¹lmn ʿṯtr ḏ-Ṣhr Ys¹r ʿṯtr ḏ-Ẓhr Ys¹r ʿm Ryʿn ʿṯtr S²rqn Bʿl-Fqḥnm ḏt-Bʿdn ḏt-Ḥmym Ḥwkm S²ms¹ Ṣnʿn Wd |
| Structures | Dwelling (indeterminate) Dwelling (concentrated) Light hydraulic structure (ex. canal, well) Large hydraulic structure (ex. dam) Wells, cisterns Terrace cultivation Building with political function Rampart Small temple Rock inscriptions |
| Language | Sabaic |
| Classical sources | Claudius Ptolemy, Geogr. 6.7.41 (2nd cent. AD): Βαινούν |
| south of Numāra (Unknown) |
| south of Ṣarm al-Fuqahaʾ (Unknown) |
| north of Tannin (Tlnn) |
| Epigraphs
in CSAI Objects in CSAI |
| Avanzini 2009 a | Avanzini, Alessandra (ed.) 2009. Art and technique in Yemen. The bronzes from the Museum of Baynun. [Pontedera]: MBVision. |
| Avanzini 2013 | Avanzini, Alessandra 2013. Inscriptions from museums in the region of Dhamār: Qatabanians in Baynūn and the goddess Athirat (ʾṯrtn). Pages 27-36 in Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet, Catherine Fauveaud and Iwona Gajda (eds). Entre Carthage et l’Arabie heureuse. Mélanges offerts à François Bron. (Orient & Méditerranée, 12). Paris: de Boccard. |
| Betti 2012 | Betti, Fabio 2012. Manici bronzei di tradizione ellenistica al Museo di Baynūn. La Parola del Passato, 67/1: 62-70. |
| Brunner 1999 a: 203 | Brunner, Ueli 1999. Die Königsstadt Hajar Yahirr. Pages 198-204 in Werner Daum, Walter W. Müller, Norbert Nebes and Walter Raunig (eds). Im Land der Königin von Saba. Kunstschätze aus dem antiken Jemen. 7. Juli 1999-9. Januar 2000. Staatlichen Museum für Völkerkunde München. Germering: I.P. Verlagsgesellschaft / Munich: I.P. Verlagsgesellschaft. |
| al-Garoo 1986: 233-235 | al-Garoo, Asmahan 1986. Les antiquités du Yémen dans l'œuvre de al-Hamdânī. (PhD, Université Paris I). |
| al-Ḥiwālī 1967 a: 97-98, 161, 391 | al-Ḥiwālī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Akwaʿ 1967. Kitāb al-Iklīl li-lisān al-Yaman abī Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Yaʿqūb al-Hamdānī, al-ǧuzʾ al-ṯānī. Cairo. |
| al-Ḥiwālī 1967 b: 110-114 | al-Ḥiwālī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Akwaʿ 1967. Kitāb al-Iklīl li-lisān al-Yaman abī Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Yaʿqūb al-Hamdānī, al-ǧuzʾ al-ṯāmin. Cairo. |
| al-Ḥiwālī 1977: 497 | al-Ḥiwālī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Akwaʿ 1977. Kitāb al-Iklīl li-lisān al-Yaman abī Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Yaʿqūb al-Hamdānī, al-ǧuzʾ al-awwal. Cairo. |
| al-Ḥiwālī 1974: 224, 344-345, 365 | al-Ḥiwālī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Akwaʿ 1974. Ṣifa ǧazirat al-ʿArab, taʾlīf Lisān al-Yaman al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad al-Hamdānī. Riyāḍ: Manšūrāt Dār al-Yamāma li-l-baḥṯ wa-l-taraǧama wa-l-našr. |
| de Maigret 2002: 272 | de Maigret, Alessandro 2002. Arabia Felix. An exploration of the Archaeological history of Yemen. London: Stacey International. |
| Müller, Walter W. 1973 b: 159 | Müller, Walter W. 1973. Ergebnisse der Deutschen Jemen-Expedition 1970. Archiv für Orientforschung, 24: 150-161. |
| Noman 2012: 15-16, 77-79, 140-141, 241-242, 275-276 | Noman, 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/. |
| Pirenne 1987 | Pirenne, Jacqueline 1987. Documents inédites de Baynūn. Pages 99-112 in Christian J. Robin and Muḥammad ʿA. Bāfaqīh (eds). Ṣayhadica. Recherches sur les inscriptions de l'Arabie préislamique offertes par ses collègues au professeur A.F. L. Beeston. (Arabie préislamique, 1). Paris: Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner. |
| Prioletta 2013 a | Prioletta, Alessia 2013. Inscriptions from the southern highlands of Yemen. The epigraphic collections of the museums of Baynūn and Dhamār. (Arabia Antica, 8). Roma: L'«Erma» di Bretschneider. |
| Radt 1971: 282-289 | Radt, Wolfgang 1971. Bericht über eine Forschungsreise in die Arabische Republik Jemen. Archäologischer Anzeiger: 253-293. |
| Schiettecatte 2011: 269 | Schiettecatte, Jérémie 2011. D'Aden à Zafar. Villes d'Arabie du Sud préislamique. (Orient et Méditerranée, 6). Paris: de Boccard. |
| al-Sheiba 1987: 18 | 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. |
| Sprenger 1875: 67, 254 | Sprenger, Aloys 1875. Die Alte Geographie Arabiens als Grundlage der Entwicklungsgeschichte des Semitismus. Bern: Commissionsverlag von Huber & Comp. |
| Vogt 2004: 74-76 | Vogt, Burkhard 2004. Grundzüge der antiken südarabischen Bewässerungslandwirtschaft. Beiträge zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Archäologie, 24: 68–104. |
| Wendrich, Barnard and Bridgmen 1999 | Wendrich, Willelmina, Barnard, Hans and Bridgman, R. M. 1999. Report of the Baynun Mapping Project, Yemen, 1998. (CNWS publications, 80). Leiden: CNWS Research School. |