Editor: Jérémie Schiettecatte
| Ancient name | Mdrm |
| Country | Yemen |
| Geographical area | Arḥab |
| Governorate | Ṣanʿāʾ |
| Kingdom | Saba |
| Coordinates | Latitude: 15° 46' 10.6" Longitude: 44° 13' 54" |
| Coordinates accuracy | certain |
| Type of site | Settlement |
| Tribe | Tribe: ʾs¹dm Tribe: ḏ-Mdrm Tribe: ḏ-hgrn Mdrm Tribe: Qs¹dm Lineage: Ḏrmt (or ḏ-Rmt) Lineage: Ġḍbm w-Ḏrmt (or ḏ-Rmt) Lineage: Fṯkn Lineage: Hmdn Lineage: S¹mdm Lineage: Tʾlqm |
| Deities | ʾlmqh ʿṯtr ʿṯtr ʿdy ʿrn Mdrm ʿṯtr ḏ-ʿr Mdrm ʿṯtr ḏ-rʾs¹ Mdrm Nws²m S²ms¹ Tʾlb Rymm bʿl Mrbḍn ḏ-Mdrm Tʾlb Rymm bʿl Trʿt Tʾlb Rymm bʿl Trʿt w-Mrbḍn |
| Structures | Dwelling (indeterminate) Dwelling (concentrated) Light hydraulic structure (ex. canal, well) Wells, cisterns Terrace cultivation Rampart Small temple Rock inscriptions |
| Language | Sabaic |
| For the identification of the site of the ancient Mdrm with the site of Ṣirwāḥ-Arḥab, see Robin and Ryckmans 1978. |
| Epigraphs
in CSAI Objects in CSAI |
| al-Garoo 1986: 272 | al-Garoo, Asmahan 1986. Les antiquités du Yémen dans l'œuvre de al-Hamdânī. (PhD, Université Paris I). |
| Glaser 1884: 182 | Glaser, Eduard 1884. Meine Reise durch Arhab und Haschid. Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen, 30: 170–183, 204–213. |
| al-Ḥiwālī 1967 a: 59 | 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 1974: 158 | 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. |
| Jamme 1966 b | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1966. Les listes onomastiques sabéennes de (?) Sirwāh en ʾArhab. Washington: Catholic University of America Press. |
| Jamme 1967 d | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1967. The Sabaean Onomastic Lists from (?) Ṣirwâḥ in ʾArḥab (second half). Rivista degli Studi Orientali, 42: 361-406. |
| Jamme 1976: 101-102 | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1976. Carnegie Museum 1974-75 Yemen Expedition. (Special Publication, 2). Pittsburgh: Carnegie Museum of Natural History. |
| al-Ḫaṭīb 1948: vol. 10, 164-165 | 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. |
| Rathjens and Wissmann 1932: 67, fig. 33 | Rathjens, Carl and Wissmann, Hermann von 1932. Vorislamische Altertümer. Rathjens-v. Wissmannsche Südarabischen-Reise. 2. (Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiet der Auslandskunde; Völkerkunde, Kulturgeschichte und Sprachen, 38/B; 19). Hamburg: Friederichsen, De Gruyter and Co. |
| 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. |
| Robin 1996 a: 1229 | Robin, Christian J. 1996. Sheba. II. Dans les inscriptions de l'Arabie du Sud. Pages Coll. 1047-1254 in Jacques Briend and Édouard Cothenet (eds). Supplément au Dictionnaire de la Bible. Fasc. 70. Paris: Letouzey & Ané. |
| Robin 1998 c: 704 | Robin, Christian J. 1998. Sirwâh. Pages 703-704 in C.E. Bosworth, E. van Donzel, W.P. Heinrichs and G. Lecomte (eds). Encyclopaedia of Islam/Encyclopédie de l'Islam. Volume IX San-Sze. (2nd edition). Leiden: Brill. |
| Robin and Ryckmans, Jacques 1978: 39-43 | Robin, Christian J. and Ryckmans, Jacques 1978. L'attribution d'un bassin à une divinité en Arabie du Sud antique. Raydān, 1: 39-64. |
| Schmidt 1987 c | Schmidt, Jürgen 1987. Die Ruinen von Ṣirwāḥ-Arḥab und der Tempel des ʿAṯtar Ḏū-Ḏībān. Archäologische Berichte aus dem Yemen, 4: 195-201. |
| Wissmann 1964 a: 17-19 | 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. |