Editor: Jérémie Schiettecatte
Ancient name | Ḏmr |
Country | Yemen |
Geographical area | Dhamār |
Governorate | Dhamār |
Kingdom | Himyar |
Coordinates | Latitude: 14° 33' " Longitude: 44° 24' 6" |
Coordinates accuracy | certain |
Type of site | Modern site with reemployed inscriptions or artefacts |
Tribe | Tribe: Mhqrʾm Lineage: Ḥbṯm Lineage: Ns¹rn Lineage: Rʾys¹ Lineage: S¹myṯʿ Lineage: S²bmm Lineage: Yhfrʿ |
Deities | ʿṯtr S²rqn Wd(m) |
Structures | Dwelling (indeterminate) Dwelling (concentrated) Light hydraulic structure (ex. canal, well) Wells, cisterns Plot of cultivated land Rampart Rock inscriptions |
Language | Sabaic |
north-east of Ḥammat Buḍān (unknown) |
south of Hirrān (Hrn) |
south of Jahrān [or Jaharina?] (Ghrn) |
south of Unknown (Unknown) |
north of Ribat ʿUmrān (Unknown) |
east of Maṣnaʿat Mariya (S¹mʿn) |
north of Ballās (Unknown) |
north of Kharibat al-Ḥuṣayn (Kmrm) |
north-east of Sayya (al-Ḥilla) (Unknown) |
south-west of Rakhma (Rḫmt) |
Epigraphs
in CSAI Objects in CSAI |
Gibson and Wilkinson 1995 | Gibson, McGuire and Wilkinson, Tony J. 1995. The Dhamar Plain, Yemen. A preliminary study of the archaeological landscape. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 25: 159-184. |
Noman 2005 | Noman, Khaldon 2005. Ḏamār al-Qarn - mawqaʿ madīnat Ḏamār al-qadīma. Pages 119-147 in Sālih ʿAlī Bāsurrah (ed.). Sanʿāʾ. History and Cultural Heritage. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Yemeni Civilization. (2 vols), 2. Ṣanʿāʾ. |
Noman 2012: 18-19 | Noman, Khaldon 2012. A Study of south Arabian Inscriptions from the region of Dhamār (Yemen). (PhD, Università di Pisa). 2016/05/10; https://etd.adm.unipi.it/theses/available/etd-08112012-151251/. |
Noman 2013 | Noman, Khaldon 2013. Nuqūš ǧadīda min Ḏhamār. Raydān, 8: 291-311. |
Prioletta 2008 | Prioletta, Alessia 2008. I Musei dello Yemen. Nuovi documenti di Dhamār: la regione dal periodo dei mukarrib di Sabaʾ fino alla formazione di Ḥimyar. Egitto e Vicino Oriente, 31: 193-211. |
Prioletta 2013 a | Prioletta, Alessia 2013. Inscriptions from the southern highlands of Yemen. The epigraphic collections of the museums of Baynūn and Dhamār. (Arabia Antica, 8). Roma: L'«Erma» di Bretschneider. |
Robin 1976 a: 170 | Robin, Christian J. 1976. Résultats épigraphiques et archéologiques de deux brefs séjours en République Arabe du Yémen. Semitica, 26: 167-188. |
Robin 1987 c: 128 | Robin, Christian J. 1987. L'inscription Ir 40 de Bayt Ḍabʿân et la tribu Ḏmry. Appendice: Les inscriptions Gl 1192, Gl 1197 et Gr 27. Pages 113-157 in Christian J. Robin and Muḥammad ʿA. Bāfaqīh (eds). Ṣayhadica. Recherches sur les inscriptions de l'Arabie préislamique offertes par ses collègues au professeur A.F. L. Beeston. (Arabie préislamique, 1). Paris: Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner. |
Robin 2006: 96 | Robin, Christian J. 2006. Muhaqraʾum (arabe Muhaqrā). Une commune Ḥimyarite méconnue. Pages 93-135 in Christian J. Robin and Muḥammad A.R. Jāzim (eds). Le pèlerin des forteresses du savoir. Hommage au qādī Ismāʿīl b. Alī al-Akwaʿ à l'occasion de son 85e anniversaire. Ṣanʿāʾ: Centre français d'archéologie et de sciences sociales de Ṣanʿāʾ. |
al-Sheiba 1987: 29 | al-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. |