Editor: Jérémie Schiettecatte
Ancient name | Unknown |
Country | Yemen |
Geographical area | Central Tihāma |
Governorate | al-Ḥudayda |
Kingdom | Saba |
Coordinates | Latitude: 14° 52' 59" Longitude: 43° 16' 36" |
Coordinates accuracy | approximate |
Type of site | Settlement |
Deities | ʾlmqh ʿṯtr |
Structures | Dwelling (indeterminate) Dwelling (concentrated) Light hydraulic structure (ex. canal, well) Small temple Rock inscriptions |
Language | Sabaic |
Epigraphs
in CSAI Objects in CSAI |
ʿAbdallāh 2004 | ʿAbdallāh, Yūsuf M. 2004. Naqš al-Wāqir, naqš ǧadīd min al-ʿaṣr al-sabaʾī al-qadīm. al-Musnad, 2: 2-6. |
Durrani 2005: 83-84 | Durrani, 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: 236 | Phillips, Carl S. 1998. The Tihamah c. 5000 to 500 BC. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 28: 233-237. |
Phillips, Carl S. 2005 | Phillips, 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. |