Editor: Jérémie Schiettecatte
| Ancient name | Rydt |
| Country | Yemen |
| Geographical area | Rayda |
| Governorate | ʿAmrān |
| Kingdom | Saba |
| Coordinates | Latitude: 15° 49' 24" Longitude: 44° 2' 19" |
| Coordinates accuracy | certain |
| Type of site | Settlement |
| Tribe | Tribe: Bklm Tribe: Bklm rbʿn ḏ-Rydt Lineage: Hmdn w-S¹ʾrn w-ʾs³wf w-ʾgrʿ Lineage: Ḥzfrm Lineage: S¹ʾrn Lineage: S¹ʾrn w-Mḥylm |
| Deities | ʾl mrʾ s¹myn w-ʾrḍn ʾlht Hmdn ʾlmqh ʿṯtr ḏt-Ḥmym Hbs¹ S¹mʿ S¹mʿ ʿdy Ḥrmtn S²ms¹-hmw bʿlt Tlqm S²ms¹m |
| Structures | Dwelling (indeterminate) Dwelling (concentrated) Light hydraulic structure (ex. canal, well) Wells, cisterns Terrace cultivation Building with political function Rampart Small temple Synagogue Rock inscriptions |
| Language | Sabaic |
| Classical sources | Claudius Ptolemy, Geogr. 6.7.41 (2nd cent. AD): Ραίδα |
| Epigraphs
in CSAI Objects in CSAI |
| al-Garoo 1986: 292-295 | al-Garoo, Asmahan 1986. Les antiquités du Yémen dans l'œuvre de al-Hamdânī. (PhD, Université Paris I). |
| al-Ḥiwālī 1967 a: 98-99 | al-Ḥiwālī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Akwaʿ 1967. Kitāb al-Iklīl li-lisān al-Yaman abī Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Yaʿqūb al-Hamdānī, al-ǧuzʾ al-ṯānī. Cairo. |
| al-Ḥiwālī 1967 b: 165-166, 169 | al-Ḥiwālī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Akwaʿ 1967. Kitāb al-Iklīl li-lisān al-Yaman abī Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Yaʿqūb al-Hamdānī, al-ǧuzʾ al-ṯāmin. Cairo. |
| al-Ḥiwālī 1974: 96, 242, 244 | al-Ḥiwālī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Akwaʿ 1974. Ṣifa ǧazirat al-ʿArab, taʾlīf Lisān al-Yaman al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad al-Hamdānī. Riyāḍ: Manšūrāt Dār al-Yamāma li-l-baḥṯ wa-l-taraǧama wa-l-našr. |
| al-Ḫaṭīb 1948: 19, 96, 111 | al-Khaṭīb, Muḥibb ad-Dīn 1948. al-Iklīl min aḫbār al-Yaman w-ansāb Ḥimyar, taṣnīf lisān al-Yaman Abī Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Yaʿqūb al-Hamdānī, al-kitāb al-ʿāshir. Cairo. |
| Robin 1976 a: 171 | Robin, Christian J. 1976. Résultats épigraphiques et archéologiques de deux brefs séjours en République Arabe du Yémen. Semitica, 26: 167-188. |
| Robin 1982 a | Robin, Christian J. 1982. Les hautes-terres du Nord-Yémen avant l'Islam. (2 vols), (Uitgaven van het Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Instituut te Istanbul, 50). Istanbul: Nederlands Historisch-Archaelogisch Instituut te Istanbul. |
| Sprenger 1875: par. 293 | Sprenger, Aloys 1875. Die Alte Geographie Arabiens als Grundlage der Entwicklungsgeschichte des Semitismus. Bern: Commissionsverlag von Huber & Comp. |
| Wissmann 1964 a: 349-351 | Wissmann, 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. |