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Ḥāz
SITE INFORMATION
| Ancient name | Ḥzym |
| Country | Yemen |
| Geographical area | Hamdān |
| Governorate | Ṣanʿāʾ |
| Kingdom | Saba |
| Coordinates | Latitude: 15° 31' 2.5" Longitude: 44° 00' 1.7" |
| Coordinates accuracy | certain |
| Type of site | Settlement |
| Tribe | Tribe: ḏ-Hgrn Tribe: Ḥmln Tribe: S¹mʿy Tribe: S¹mʿy ṯlṯt ḏ-Ḥmln Lineage: Btʿ Lineage: Btʿ w-Hmdn Lineage: Dmhn Lineage: Ġfrm Lineage: Hrn Lineage: Hzm ḏ-Ḥmln Lineage: Kbr ʾqynm Lineage: Lʿwn Lineage: Mʾḏnm Lineage: Nʿmn Lineage: Nmn Lineage: S¹ḫymm Lineage: S¹qrn Lineage: S³nḥn Lineage: Zhrm |
| Deities | ʾlhm ʾlmqh(w) ʾlmqhw Ṯhwn ʿṯtr ʿṯtr S²rqn ḏt-Bʿdnm ḏt-Ḥmym Hbs¹ Ns¹rm Qwm S²ms¹ S²ms¹-hmw bʿlt Myf Ṯwr Bʿlm Tʾlb Rymm Tʾlb Rymm bʿl S²ṣrm |
| Structures | Dwelling (indeterminate) Dwelling (concentrated) Terrace cultivation Building with political function Rampart Large temple Rock inscriptions |
| Language | Sabaic |
MAP
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RELATED SITES
| south of Bayt Ghufr (Unknown) |
| north-west of Ṣanʿāʾ (Ṣnʿw) |
RELATED MATERIAL
| Epigraphs
Objects |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Garbini 1970 b: 537 | Garbini, Giovanni 1970. Antichità yemenite II. Annali dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli, 30/4: 537-548. |
| al-Garoo 1986: 263-264 | al-Garoo, Asmahan 1986. Les antiquités du Yémen dans l'œuvre de al-Hamdânī. (PhD, Université Paris I). |
| al-Ḥiwālī 1967 a: 456 | 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: 234 | 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: vol. 10, 12, 14, 117 | 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. |
| Müller, Walter W. 1972 a | Müller, Walter W. 1972. Epigraphische Nachlese aus Ḥāz. Neue Ephemeris für semitische Epigraphik, 1: 75-85. |
| Rathjens and Wissmann 1932: 98-124 | 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. |
| al-Sheiba 1987: 24 | 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. |
| Wissmann 1964 a: 324-327 | 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. |
| Wissmann 1962: 193-194 | Wissmann, Hermann von 1962. Al-Barīra in Ǧirdān im Vergleich mit anderen Stadtfestungen Alt-Südarabiens. Le Muséon, 75: 177-209. |
EXTERNAL MATCHES
| https://ancientarabia.huma-num.fr/gazetteer/places/31 |