Editor: Jérémie Schiettecatte
Ancient name | Unknown |
Country | Yemen |
Geographical area | Maʾrib |
Governorate | Mārib |
Kingdom | Sabaʾ |
Coordinates | Latitude: 15° 21' 00" Longitude: 45° 13' 00" |
Type of site | Modern site with reemployed inscriptions or artefacts |
Tribe | S¹bʾ |
Deities | ʿṯtr Hbs¹ Hwbs¹ ʾlmqh |
Structures | Rock inscriptions |
Language | Sabaic |
Location and toponomy | Hamlet located approximately 10 km SW of Marib and now uncovered by the water of the reservoir lake of the modern dam in Maʾrib. |
History of research | 1880's: E. Glaser: copy of inscriptions : Gl 1102 ; Gl 1103 ; Gl 1104 ; Gl 1105 ; Gl 1110 |
General description | 5 fragmentary inscriptions possibly from 3 different texts are reemployed, one of them at least comes from the rampart of Maʾrib city (Gl 1110). The others may also com from that city. |
Chronology | The palaeography of the inscriptions is charaterized by th style A (8th-6th cent. BC) |
west of Khuraybat Raḥāba (Unknown) |
Epigraphs
in CSAI Objects in CSAI |
Höfner and Solá Solé 1961: 38-39, pl. XX/2 | Höfner, Maria and Solá Solé, Josep M. 1961. Inschriften aus dem Gebiet zwischen Mārib und dem Ǧōf. Sammlung Eduard Glaser. 2. (Sitzungsberichte der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 238/3). Vienna: H. Böhlaus Nachf., Kommissionsverlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. |
Tschinkowitz 1969: 8, pl. II | Tschinkowitz, Helga 1969. Kleine Fragmente. Sammlung Eduard Glaser. 6. (Sitzungsberichte der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 261/4). Vienna: Böhlau in Kommission. |