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Archaeological site in Tigrai and location of a temple for the Sabaean god Almaqah. Erected in the 8th century BCE, the temple and its outstanding cult inventory, including a perfectly preserved limestone libation altar, provides important evidence of the association between South Arabian and Northeast African cultural traditions in the 1st millennium BCE in a clear archaeological context and highlights the economic, political and religious network of the polity of Daʿamat.
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See Sabaic
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Minaic is an Ancient South Arabian (ASA) language attested by a corpus of about 1500 inscriptions and more than a hundred minuscule texts on wooden sticks, originating from the region of Wādī al-Jawf (northwestern Yemen) during the first millennium BCE. Several hundred Minaic inscriptions and graffiti are also documented in far-away sites with commercial settlements of the kingdom of Maʿīn.
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Mišmārōt [List of priestly courses]
Lists of priestly courses in service of the Temple in Jerusalem. After the destruction of the Second Temple, Jewish priests referred to them every week.
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Ancient city in the southern highlands of Yemen. It was the capital of the tribal principality of Radmān-and-Khawlān and one of the main urban centres of the kingdom of Ḥimyar.
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Archaeological site located along the western foothills of the al-Hajjar Mountains in the Emirate of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Probably the central place of the kingdom of ʿUmān between the 3rd cent. BCE and the 3rd cent. CE.
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See Script
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Name of a tribe or of a tribal aggregate referred to by two epigraphic testimonies from the 5th and 6th centuries CE. One of these suggests a location in the middle valley of the Euphrates, in contemporary Syria.
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Mudhmar East is an Early Iron Age cultic site in Eastern Arabia. The site revealed several buildings, rich copper alloy artefacts, including weapons and snake figurines, and pottery, highlighting the region’s cultural practices.