DASI

digital archive for the study of pre-islamic arabian inscriptions

Editor: Jérémie Schiettecatte


SITE INFORMATION

Ancient nameUnknown
CountryYemen
Geographical areaCentral Tihāma
Governorateal-Ḥudayda
KingdomSaba
CoordinatesLatitude: 14° 52' 59"    Longitude: 43° 16' 36"    
Coordinates accuracyapproximate
Type of siteSettlement
Deitiesʾlmqh
ʿṯtr
StructuresDwelling (indeterminate)
Dwelling (concentrated)
Light hydraulic structure (ex. canal, well)
Small temple
Rock inscriptions
LanguageSabaic

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RELATED MATERIAL

Epigraphs in CSAI
Objects in CSAI

BIBLIOGRAPHY

ʿAbdallāh 2004ʿAbdallāh, Yūsuf M. 2004. Naqš al-Wāqir, naqš ǧadīd min al-ʿaṣr al-sabaʾī al-qadīm. al-Musnad, 2: 2-6.
Durrani 2005: 83-84Durrani, Nadia 2005. The Tihamah coastal plain of South-West Arabia in its regional context c. 6000 BC - AD 600. (BAR International Series, 1456). Oxford: Archaeopress. [Society for Arabian Studies Monographs, 4]
Phillips, Carl S. 1998: 236Phillips, Carl S. 1998. The Tihamah c. 5000 to 500 BC. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 28: 233-237.
Phillips, Carl S. 2005Phillips, Carl S. 2005. A preliminary description of the pottery from al-Hāmid and its significance in relation to other pre-Islamic sites on the Tihāmah. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 35: 177-193.