Editor: Jérémie Schiettecatte
Ancient name | Unknown |
Country | Yemen |
Geographical area | Wādī Bayḥān |
Governorate | Shabwa |
Kingdom | Qatabān |
Coordinates | Latitude: 15° 00' 22.32" Longitude: 45° 50' 12.48" |
Coordinates accuracy | approximate |
Type of site | Area with rock inscriptions |
Tribe | Lineage: Qfʾn Lineage: Rs²m |
Deities | ʿm ʿm ḏ-Qrqrm |
Structures | Light hydraulic structure (ex. canal, well) Terrace cultivation Rock inscriptions |
Language | Qatabanic |
Location and toponomy | The site is located approx. 4 km E of Hajar Kuḥlān. It is a rock panel with two rock inscriptions engraved above a trench excavated in a rocky outcrop between Wādīs Bayḥān to the West and ʿUyayna to the East, à 4 km environ à l'est de Hajar Kuḥlān. |
History of research | Survey: Mission Qatabān (dir. Robin) |
General description | 2 inscriptions are engraved on a rock panel. One (MQ-Maqṣara al-Abraq 1) is signed by S²hr Ygl Yhrgb son of Hwfʿm Yhnʿm king of Qataban and mentions the building of hydraulic structures and a temple devoted to ʿm ḏ-Qrqrm. The second (MQ-Maqṣara al-Abraq 2) commemorates the building of hydraulic structures only. |
Chronology | The palaeography of the two inscriptions is characteristic of the style C (1st cent. BC/ AD). |
Epigraphs
in CSAI Objects in CSAI |
Arbach et al. 2001: 70-72 | Arbach, Mounir, Avanzini, Alessandra, Bāṭāyiʿ, Aḥmed and Robin, Christian J. 2001. Matériaux pour le corpus des inscriptions qatabānites (II). Raydān, 7: 43-101. |