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Hadramitic is the easternmost of the four Ancient South Arabian (ASA) languages, and was spoken in the kingdom of Ḥaḍramawt. During the acme of the kingdom, it extended from the desert of Ramlat as-Sabatayn down to the coastal plain of Yemen, into the Mahra region and even further east up to the Omanite Dhofar. The corpus of formal Hadramitic texts includes about 1500 inscriptions, dating from between the 7th century BCE and the end of the 3rd century CE.
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City of ancient Yemen known in classical sources as a major caravan hub and the capital of the kingdom of Qatabān since the end of the 8th century BCE. Located at the northern edge of the Wādī Bayḥān, it was discovered in 1900 by George W. Bury, subsequently excavated by the American Foundation for the Study of the Man (1950-52), and by a joint Italian-French Archaeological Mission in the Republic of Yemen.
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Ḥalfān is a male deity attested in Ancient South Arabian sources. He was worshipped in the area of the city of Haram (Kharibat Hamdān) in the Jawf by tribes that inhabited the region towards the end of the first millennium BCE, such as the Amīr.
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Major tribe and city-state in the Jawf valley that reached its zenith in the 8th-6th cent. BCE. It was centred on the city of Haram (Sab. Hrmm, today Kharibat Hamdān/Kharibat āl ʿAlī). The city of Haram was a lasting ally of the kingdom of Sabaʾ.
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Ancient city-state located in modern Yemen, in the central part of the Jawf valley. Despite the absence of archaeological excavations, the remains of a city wall and an extra muros temple have been identified. A corpus of more than 70 inscriptions from the site provides information on its social, political, and religious background.
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See Hagar