DASI

digital archive for the study of pre-islamic arabian inscriptions

Editor: Jérémie Schiettecatte


SITE INFORMATION

Ancient nameṮt
CountryYemen
Geographical areaRadāʿ
Governorateal-Bayḍāʾ
KingdomHimyar
CoordinatesLatitude: 14° 26' 45.6"    Longitude: 44° 45' 13.7"    
Coordinates accuracycertain
Type of siteSettlement
TribeTribe: Ṯt (?)
Lineage: Mdrrn
Lineage: S²hlm
Deitiesʾlhw byt-s¹
ʿm
ʿṯtr
ʿṯtr ḏ-Mqwlm
ḏt-Ẓhrn
StructuresDwelling (indeterminate)
Dwelling (concentrated)
Terrace cultivation
Rampart
Rock inscriptions
LanguageSabaic

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RELATED MATERIAL

Epigraphs in CSAI
Objects in CSAI

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Avanzini 1994Avanzini, Alessandra 1994. Un'iscrizione qatabanica da Ṯāh. Pages 13-20 in Norbert Nebes. Arabia Felix. Beiträge zur Sprache und Kultur des vorislamischen Arabien. Festschrift Walter W. Müller zum 60. Geburtstag. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
Barbanes 2000: 213Barbanes, Eleanor 2000. Domestic and defensive architecture on the Yemen plateau: eighth century BCE - sixth century CE. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 11/2: 207-222.
Edens 1999: 107-112Edens, Christopher 1999. The Bronze Age of Highland Yemen: Chronological and Spatial Variability of Pottery and Settlement. Paléorient, 25/2: 105-128.
Robin 2013 a: 205Robin, Christian J. 2013. Matériaux pour une prosopographie de l'Arabie antique: les noblesses sabéenne et ḥimyarite avant et après l'Íslam. Pages 127-269 in Christian J. Robin and Jérémie Schiettecatte. Les préludes de l'Islam. Ruptures et continuités des civilisations du Proche-Orient, de l'Afrique orientale, de l'Arabie et de l'Inde à la veille de l'Islam. (Orient et Méditerranée, 11). Paris: De Boccard.
al-Sheiba 1987: 21al-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.
Wilkinson and Edens 1999: 4-5Wilkinson, Tony J. and Edens, Christopher 1999. Survey and excavation in the central Highlands of Yemen: result of the Dhamār Survey Project, 1996 and 1998. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 10/1: 1-33.
Wilkinson and Gibson 1998Wilkinson, Tony J. and Gibson, McGuire 1998. Dhamar project. Pages 39-50 in Gene Gragg (ed.). The Oriental Institute 1997-1998 Annual Report. (Oriental Institute Annual Reports). Chicago: The University of Chicago. 2016/10/24; https://oi.uchicago.edu/about/annual-reports/oriental-institute-1997-1998-annual-report. 2016/10/24; http://oi.uchicago.edu/sites/oi.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/shared/docs/ar/91-00/97-98/97-98_Dhamar.pdf.