DASI

digital archive for the study of pre-islamic arabian inscriptions

Editor: Jérémie Schiettecatte


SITE INFORMATION

Ancient nameḌlʿm
CountryYemen
Geographical areaṢanʿāʾ
GovernorateṢanʿāʾ
KingdomHimyar
CoordinatesLatitude: 15° 24' 00"    Longitude: 44° 7' 00"    
Coordinates accuracyapproximate
Type of siteModern site with reemployed inscriptions or artefacts
TribeTribe: ʾyṯʿn
Tribe: Ḥlmlm
Tribe: Mʾḏnm
Tribe: Mdʾl
Tribe: Nymn
Tribe: Tnʿmm
Tribe: Wmʿm
Lineage: Bnnr
Lineage: Kbs¹yn
Lineage: Qbʿṯm
Lineage: S¹dn
Lineage: S¹myṯʿ
Lineage: Wdnm
DeitiesRḥmnn
S²ms¹-hmw
Wdm ḏ-S¹mʿn and S²ʿbm
Wdm ḏ-Yfʿn
StructuresDwelling (indeterminate)
Dwelling (concentrated)
Plot of cultivated land
Building with political function
Synagogue
Rock inscriptions
LanguageSabaic

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RELATED SITES

north-west of Ṣanʿāʾ (Ṣnʿw)

RELATED MATERIAL

Epigraphs in CSAI
Objects in CSAI

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Garbini 1972Garbini, Giovanni 1972. Iscrizioni sabee da Ḍulaʿ. Annali dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli, 32: 513-518, pl. I-II.
al-Sheiba 1987: 40al-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.
Wissmann 1964 a: 357Wissmann, 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.