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Few reliefs, early Arabic and Graeco-Roman texts as well as rock art from the Iron Age to Late Antiquity illuminate weaponry in south-western Arabia. In addition, excavated finds reflect the contemporary weapons in south-eastern Arabia. Outside analogies are essential to reconstruct the historic situation.
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A well is a vertical cavity dug into the soil and/or rock to reach an underground water table. Wells can be lined, with stones and/or baked bricks, or not, depending on the firmness of the ground.
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Wheat is one of the most cultivated cereals in the world today. The domestication processes leading to the formation of wheat groups in the Near East during the Neolithic are complex and remain to be better understood. Free-threshing wheats (bread and durum wheats) are the represented wheats in the Arabian Peninsula since the Bronze Age.
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Yadaʿʾab Dhubyān Yuhanʿim son of Shahr
Founder of a dynasty of kings of Qatabān who reigned in the first half of the 1st cent. BCE.
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Sabaean fortified urban settlement located 35 km south of Maʾrib, known for its role in the commemoration of the mukarrib (ruler) of Sabaʾ royal hunts and above all for the definition of the ancient South Arabian proto-historic and early-historic chronology.
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Yarīm Aymān was a prince of the tribe of Ḥāshid. He was the first of a dynasty of kings of Sabaʾ from the lineage of Bataʿ-and-Hamdān (second half of the 2nd cent. CE).
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Yashhurʾīl Yuharʿish son of Abīyaśaʿ
Supreme ruler of Ḥaḍramawt, who reigned at the turn of the Christian era and was probably the last bearer of the title mukarrib (mkrb) in South Arabia.
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Royal capital of Ḥimyar (officially known as dhu-Raydān).
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Pre-Islamic religion of Iran (Persia) and official religion of the Sasanian dynasty (3rd-7th centuries C.E.), named after the prophet Zarathushtra. Its polytheistic cult is based on dualistic thinking in which the god Ahura Mazdā (or Ohrmazd) and the principle of evil, Angra Mainyu (or Ahriman), face each other in a cosmic battle.