DASI

digital archive for the study of pre-islamic arabian inscriptions

DASI

Naʿḍ

Editor: Jérémie Schiettecatte


SITE INFORMATION

Ancient nameNʿḍ
CountryYemen
Geographical areaWaʿlān
GovernorateṢanʿāʾ
KingdomSaba
Himyar
CoordinatesLatitude: 15° 4' 43.7"    Longitude: 44° 21' 39.8"    
Coordinates accuracycertain
Type of siteSettlement
TribeTribe: Ḏmry
Lineage: Grt
Lineage: Grtyn (nisba)
Lineage: Whbʾl
Deitiesʾlmqh
ʿṯtr
ʿṯtr ʿzzm w-ḏt-Ẓhrn bʿly ʿrn Knn
ʿṯtr S²rqn
ʿṯtr w-S²ms¹m bʿly Kdt
Ḥgrm Qḥmm
Rḥmnn
Wd
StructuresDwelling (indeterminate)
Dwelling (concentrated)
Light hydraulic structure (ex. canal, well)
Wells, cisterns
Terrace cultivation
Building with political function
Small temple
Large temple
Synagogue
Rock inscriptions
LanguageSabaic

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RELATED SITES

near al-Maqwala (Unknown)
south-east of Ṣanʿāʾ (Ṣnʿw)

RELATED MATERIAL

Epigraphs in CSAI
Objects in CSAI

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Avanzini 1985Avanzini, Alessandra 1985. Problemi storici della regione di al-Ḥadāʾ nel periodo preislamico e nuove iscrizioni. Pages 53-115 in Pelio Fronzaroli (ed.). Studi Yemeniti. (Quaderni di semitistica, 14). Florence: Istituto di linguistica e di lingue orientali, Università di Firenze.
Jamme 1962 a: 302-303, 319-320Jamme, Albert W.F. 1962. Sabaean Inscriptions from Maḥram Bilqîs (Mârib). (Publications of the American Foundation for the Study of Man, 3). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press.
Müller, Walter W. 1973 b: 156Müller, Walter W. 1973. Ergebnisse der Deutschen Jemen-Expedition 1970. Archiv für Orientforschung, 24: 150-161.
Robin 1987 c: 133Robin, Christian J. 1987. L'inscription Ir 40 de Bayt Ḍabʿân et la tribu Ḏmry. Appendice: Les inscriptions Gl 1192, Gl 1197 et Gr 27. Pages 113-157 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.
al-Sheiba 1987: 57al-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: 368Wissmann, 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.