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  • Rabb Yahūd

    See Judaism [Ḥimyar]

  • Raḍrād (al-)

    Florian Téreygeol

    Yemeni silver-mining site active from late Antiquity to the 10th century.

  • Rahbān [Temple]

    See Raybūn

  • Raḥmanān

    Iwona Gajda

    Name of the one God venerated in South Arabia during the so-called “monotheistic period”. The name Rḥmnn occurs in South Arabian (Ḥimyarite) inscriptions in the 5th and 6th centuries CE. It designated the one God in Jewish, Judaizing or vaguely monotheistic, and Christian texts.

  • Rākī

    Joseph Lehner

    Concentration of Early Iron Age, Early Islamic, and Mid-Late Islamic settlements and primary copper production sites located on the western piedmont of northeastern Oman. The sites represent one of the densest and largest concentrations of industrial activity in southeast Arabia.

  • Rampart

    See Architecture I. Defensive architecture

  • Raybūn

    Alexander Sedov

    The ancient oasis of Raybūn was one of the largest agricultural sites of the Inner Ḥaḍramawt in the 1st mill. BCE. It is located in the lower reaches of the Wādī Dawʿan and consists of several settlements and farmsteads with a collective irrigation system, temples and sanctuaries, and cave necropolises on the edge of the valley. The core of the oasis is the settlement Raybūn I.

  • Raydān

  • Riṣāf [Temple]

  • Rock Art [Arabian]

    Guillaume Charloux

    Rock art constitutes one of the main sources of information on pre- and protohistoric societies in Arabia. It also provides an invaluable iconographic corpus for the study of “desert peoples” and their environment during pre-Islamic and Islamic times.

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