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Amran Tablets
The Amran Tablets are Sabaean bronze dedicatory plaques from the temple of Almaqah of Hirrān at ʿAmrān, Yemen, dated by palaeography to the fourth to first centuries BC.
Ancient South Arabian script
The Ancient South Arabian script, or musnad, is a 29-letter consonantal alphabet used in ancient Yemen from the late 2nd millennium BC to the 6th century AD.
Awsan
Awsan (Awsān) was an ancient South Arabian kingdom centered on the Wadi Markha in Yemen, flourishing in the 8th and 7th centuries BC and crushed by Saba's Karib'il Watar.
Book of the Himyarites
The Book of the Himyarites is a fragmentary Syriac narrative about the persecution of the Christians of Najran around 523 CE and the Aksumite campaign that followed, published by Axel Moberg in 1924.
CIH 6
CIH 6 is a Late Sabaic construction inscription from Maʾrib, Yemen, dated year 573 of the Himyarite era, recording a house built in one year and furnished with two carved lions.
Corpus of South Arabian inscriptions
The corpus of South Arabian inscriptions is the body of printed and digital collections, above all the Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum and Répertoire d'épigraphie sémitique, editing over 15,000 pre-Islamic South Arabian inscriptions.
Council of Timna
The Council of Timna was the tribal council of the ancient kingdom of Qatabān, seated at its capital Tamnaʿ in Yemen, where it shared legislative power with the king.
Eponym dating of Qataban
Eponym dating of Qataban, or Qatabanian eponyms, was the system by which the South Arabian kingdom of Qataban marked years in inscriptions through eponyms serving two-year terms.
Hima Paleo-Arabic inscriptions
The Hima Paleo-Arabic inscriptions are pre-Islamic rock texts carved in Arabic script on the Hima massif near Najran, Saudi Arabia, including the earliest fully Arabic letter shapes, from the late fifth century CE.
Himyaritic language
Himyaritic, also called the Himyarite language, is a poorly attested language or dialect that medieval Arab grammarians attributed to the Ḥimyarites of ancient Yemen; its classification remains disputed.
Ja 1028
Ja 1028 is a Late Sabaic rock inscription from Biʾr Ḥimā near Najrān, dated to 523 CE, recording the Himyarite king dhu-Nuwas's persecution of Najrān's Christian community.
Jabal Dabub inscription
The Jabal Dabub inscription is a 6th-century Sabaic rock graffito carved at Jabal Dabub in Yemen, bearing the earliest known epigraphic attestation of the Basmala, pairing Raḥmān with Allāh.
Khawlan
Khawlan (Ḫwln) was a tribe and territory attested in pre-Islamic Yemen inscriptions from the fourth century BC to 547 CE, around Ṣirwāḥ and the highlands.
Kinda (tribe)
The Kinda (Kindah) were a tribe of central Arabia, attested from the 2nd century CE, whose princes built a large kingdom in the 5th and 6th centuries.
King of Saba and Dhu Raydan
King of Saba and Dhu Raydan (mlk S¹bʾ w-ḏ-Rydn) was the royal title of the rulers of the unified kingdoms of Saba and Himyar in ancient South Arabia.
Letter on the Himyarite Martyrs
The Letter on the Himyarite Martyrs is a Syriac letter attributed to Simeon of Beth Arsham, a Monophysite bishop, describing the persecution of Najrān's Christians in 523.
Letter to the Himyarites
The Letter to the Himyarites is an early sixth-century Syriac letter attributed to Jacob of Serugh, responding to the persecution of Najran's Christians by the Himyarite king Yusuf Dhu Nuwas.
Ma'in
Ma'in, the Minaean kingdom, was an ancient South Arabian trading kingdom in the Jawf valley of Yemen, with its capital at Qarnawu, flourishing in the 1st millennium BC.
Minaean language
Minaean language, also called Minaic or Madhabaic, is one of the four Ancient South Arabian languages, the written language of the kingdom of Maʿīn in northwestern Yemen from the 8th century BC.
Minaean sarcophagus of Zaydil
The Minaean sarcophagus of Zayd'il is a wooden coffin from Egypt bearing the Minaic inscription M 338 of Zayd'il, a merchant who supplied myrrh to Egyptian temples.
Minaean trade colony at Dedan
A settled community of merchants from South Arabia's kingdom of Ma'in at the oasis of Dedan, in northwest Arabia, from roughly the 3rd to 1st century BCE.
Minuscule South Arabian script
The minuscule South Arabian script, called zabūr (خط الزبور), is the everyday variant of the Ancient South Arabian alphabet, incised on wooden sticks in pre-Islamic Yemen.
Mukarrib
Mukarrib was the royal title of the early rulers of Sabaʾ in ancient South Arabia, later borne by rulers of other kingdoms and eventually replaced by 'king'.
Qataban
Qataban (Qatabān) was a major ancient South Arabian kingdom in Yemen, centered on Wadi Bayhan, from the 7th century BC to the 2nd century AD.
Qayn (South Arabian title)
Qayn is a title in Ancient South Arabian inscriptions for an administrative official serving a king, temple, or city rather than a tribe, attested in Qatabanic and Sabaic texts.
Repair inscription of the Marib Dam
The repair inscription of the Marib Dam, known as the Abraha inscription CIH 541, is a Sabaic stela recording Abraha's reconstruction of the Great Dam of Maʾrib in 548.
RES 3945
RES 3945, the Karib'il Watar res gestae inscription, is a monumental Sabaic text recording eight campaigns of Saba's expansion in the early 7th century BC.
RY 506
RY 506, also known as Murayghān 1, is a long rock inscription of the sixth-century Himyarite king Abraha, carved at Murayghān in Saudi Arabia and dated to 552 AD.
Sabaic
Sabaic is the Old South Arabian language of the kingdom of Saba, written in South Arabian script from about the late 8th century BCE to 559 CE.
Tablet De Geest
The Tablet De Geest is a wooden writing tablet in Palmyrene Aramaic, found in Hoq Cave on Socotra, Yemen, recording a traveler named Abgar and dated to 258 CE.