for the language Qatabanian language Image Map of Aksum and South Arabia ca. 230 AD.jpg right 300px thumb Late Kingdom of Qataban light blue not long before its fall in the 2nd century CE. Image qataban lion bronze.jpg thumb Bronze lion with a rider made by the Qatabanians circa 75 50 BCE. Qataban Arabic , was one of the ancient Yemeni kingdoms. Its heartland was located in the Baihan valley. Like some other Southern Arabian kingdoms it gained great wealth from the trade of frankincense and myrrh incense which were burned at altars. The capital of Qataban was named Timna and was located on the trade route which passed through the other kingdoms of Hadramaut , Sheba and Ma in . The chief deity of the Qatabanians was Amm, or Uncle and the people called themselves the children of Amm . It was the most prominent Yemeni kingdom in the 2nd half of the 1st millennium BCE, when its ruler held the title of the South Arabian hegemon, MKRB. Bibliography Alessandro de Maigret. Arabia Felix , translated Rebecca Thompson. London Stacey International, 2002. ISBN 1 900988 07 0 Andrey Korotayev . Ancient Yemen . Oxford Oxford University Press, 1995. ISBN 0 19 922237 1. Andrey Korotayev . Pre Islamic Yemen . Wiesbaden Harrassowitz Verlag, 1996. ISBN 3 447 03679 6. Andrey Korotayev . Socio Political Conflict in the Qatabanian Kingdom? A re interpretation of the Qatabanic inscription R 3566 Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 27 1997 141 158. Category History of Yemen Category Geography of Yemen Category Arabian Peninsula ar ca Qataban de Qataban es Qataban fa fr Qataban hr Kataban it Qataban lt Katabanas sh Kataban fi Qataban ... more details
Amm was a moon god worshipped in ancient Qataban . The inhabitants of that South Arabian Peninsula Arabian kingdom referred to themselves as the Banu Amm , or the Children of Amm . He was also revered as a weather god, as his attributes included lightning bolts. His consort is the goddess Athirat . Sources Encyclopedia of Gods, Michael Jordon, Kyle Cathie Limited, 2002 Category Arabian gods Category Lunar gods Category Sky and weather gods Category Deities in the Hebrew Bible MEast myth stub ms Amm tuhan pt Amm divindade ... more details
Infobox Language name Qatabanian familycolor Afro Asiatic states Yemen speakers Extinct fam2 Semitic languages Semitic fam3 South Semitic South fam4 Western fam5 Old South Arabian iso2 sem iso3 xqt One of the four better documented languages of the Old South Arabian or Sayhadic sub group, Qatabanian or Qatabanic was used in Yemen between 800 BC and 200 AD, mainly but not exclusively in the Kingdom of Qataban . References Leonid Kogan and Andrey Korotayev Sayhadic Languages Epigraphic South Arabian . Semitic Languages . London Routledge, 1997, p. 157 183. http linguistlist.org forms langs LLDescription.cfm?code xqt Linguist List Image Map of Aksum and South Arabia ca. 230 AD.jpg right 300px thumb Late Kingdom of Qataban light blue in the 2nd century CE. AfroAsiatic lang stub Category Old South Arabian languages Category Languages of Yemen ar ca Qatabanita hu Katab ni nyelv ... more details
about the copper mining area in southern Israel Timna valley the codename of a microprocessor processor family from Intel Intel Timna Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Timna Arabic , is an ancient city in Yemen , the capital of the Qataban kingdom it is distinct from a city in Southern Israel that shares the same name. During ancient times, Timna was an important hub in the famous Incense Route , which supplied Arabia n and India n incense via camel Camel train caravan to ports on the Mediterranean Sea , most notably Gaza in Palestine , and Petra , in Jordan . An American excavation of Timna took place in the 1950s. For a modern treatment of the city, see Beihan Coord 15 00 06 N 45 48 57 E region YE type city display title Category Archaeological sites in Yemen Yemen geo stub ar ca Timna Iemen de Timna es Timna hr Timna Jemen ru sh Timna Jemen ... more details
the Ancient Arabs Ad in Oman . 110BC Himyar rises against Qataban. 1century BC Ma een declines gradually ..., annexing most of Saba and Southern Qataban , but Hadhramout repels them. 1st century AD the Kahlan .... 200 AD Himyar captures most of Qataban . 200 AD Himyar annexes the Sabean state of Marib. 200 AD after ... itself with Qataban and Aksum attacking Himyar from the West and the east. 217 AD while the Himyarites are fighting the Hadhramout Qataban alliance in the east, the Aksumites capture the Himyarite capital Zafar, . 221 AD Hadhramout annexes Qataban and reaches its height of power. 222 AD the Aksumites ... more details
for the language Minaean language The Minaeans from Arabic Ma neyy n IPA ar m nej n or Ma n IPA ar m n also spelled Ma in were an ancient Arab group in Yemen during the 1st millennium BC . Their Minaean Kingdom Mamlakat Ma n IPA ar m ml k t m n was one of important kingdoms in ancient Yemen and Southwestern Arabia . Their capital was Qarnawu Qarnaw NW Yemen along the strip of desert called Sayhad by medieval Arab geographers and that is called now Ramlat al Sab atayn . The Minaean people were one of four ancient Yemenite groups Greek ethnos mentioned by Eratosthenes . The others were the Sabaeans , Hadramites and Qatabanians . Each of these had regional kingdoms in ancient Yemen, with the Minaeans in the north east in Wadi al Jawf , the Sabeans to the south east of them, the Qatabanians to the south east of the Sabaeans, and the Hadramites east of them. The Minaeans, like some other Arabian and Yemenite kingdoms of the same period, were involved in the extremely lucrative spice trade , especially frankincense and myrrh . http www.infoplease.com ipa A0108153.html See also Ancient history of Yemen Yemen Sabaean Kingdom Qataban Minaean language Bibliography Alessandro de Maigret. Arabia Felix , translated Rebecca Thompson. London Stacey International, 2002. ISBN 1 900988 07 0 Andrey Korotayev . Ancient Yemen . Oxford Oxford University Press, 1995. ISBN 0 19 922237 1. Andrey Korotayev . Pre Islamic Yemen . Wiesbaden Harrassowitz Verlag, 1996. ISBN 3 447 03679 6. External links http www.infoplease.com ipa A0108153.html Info Please http www.britannica.com eb article 45966 Britannica Online Category Tribes of Arabia Category History of Yemen Yemen stub MEast hist stub ar ca Ma in de Ma in el fa fr Min ens hr Minejsko kraljevstvo it Minei lt Mainas Jemenas sh Minejsko kraljevstvo fi Minaean tr Ma in devleti ... more details
century BCE, but it was able to repel the attack. Hadramaut annexed Qataban in the second half ... for the Sabaeans. Kingdom of Qataban 4th century BCE 200 CE Image qataban lion bronze.jpg thumb Bronze lion with a rider made by the Qatabanians circa 75 50 BCE. main QatabanQataban was one ... at altars. The capital of Qataban was named Timna and was located on the trade route which passed through ... city was Yathill now known as Baraqish . Other parts of modern Yemen include Qataban and the coastal ... text notes that Hadramaut and Qataban were also all allied against the kingdom. As a result of this, the Kingdom ... more details
Fertile Crescent myth Arabian Atarsamain also Attar shamayin ref name Retsop168 , morning star of heaven is an astral deity of uncertain gender, worshipped in pre Islamic Arabia pre Islamic northern and central Arabia . Worshipped widely among Tribes of Arabia Arab tribes in pre Islamic Arabia , Atarsamain is known from around 800 BC and is identified in letters of the Assyria n kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal . ref name Hoylandp68 Hoyland, 2001, p. 68. ref He she may be synonymous with the Arab goddess Allat whose cult was centred on Palmyra . According to Dierk Lange, Atarsamain was the main deity in a trinity of gods worshipped by what he calls the Yumu il confederation, which he describes as a northern Arab tribal confederation of Ishmaelites Ishmaelite ancestry headed by the clan of Qedar Kedar i.e. the Qedarites . ref name Langep268 Lange, 2004, pp. 268 269. ref Lange identifies Nuha deity Nuha as the sun deity , Ruda deity Ruda as the moon deity , and Atarsamin as the main deity associated with Venus . ref name Langep268 A similar trinity of gods representing the sun, moon and Venus is found among the peoples of the South Arabian kingdoms of Kingdom of Awsan Awsan , Ma in , Qataban and Hadramawt between the 9th and 4th centuries BC. ref name Langep268 There, the deity associated with Venus was Astarte , the sun deity was Yam god Yam , and moon deity was variously called Wadd , Amm god Amm and Sin mythology Sin . ref name Langep268 Atarsamain is twice mentioned in the annals of Assurbanipal , king of the Assyrian empire in the 7th century BC. The reference is to a?lu s a tar sa ma a a in the people of Attar god Attar of Heaven who are said to have been defeated together with the Nebayot Nebaioth Nabataeans and the Qedar Qedarites led by Yauta ben Birdadda, who was also known as king of the Arabs . ref name Retsop168 Rets , 2003, p. 168. ref References reflist 2 Bibliography ref begin citation title Arabia and the Arabs from the Bronze Age to the coming of I ... more details
Fertile Crescent myth Arabian Ruda is a deity that was of paramount importance in the Arab Pantheon gods pantheon of gods worshipped by the Tribes of Arabia North Arabian tribes of pre Islamic Arabia . ref name Lipinskip618 Lipinski, 2000, pp. 618 619. ref The etymology of his name gives the meaning well disposed an indication of his function as a protective deity. ref name Lipinskip618 The oldest reference to Ruda is found in the annals of Esarhaddon who ruled over the Assyrian empire from 681 669 BC. Ruda may have evolved from Sanskrit god Rudra .The name is transliterated into English from the original Akkadian language Akkadian as Ru ul da a a and he is mentioned among the gods of the Arabs. ref name Lipinskip618 Known as Arsu among the Palmyra ns, in a later Aramaic language Aramaic inscription, Arsu Ruda is paired with the Syria n god Resheph , a protective deity for his worshippers from the 3rd millennium BC. ref name Lipinskip618 Dierk Lange writes that Ruda formed part of a trinity of gods worshipped by what he calls the Yumu il confederation, which he describes as a northern Arab tribal confederation of Ishmaelites Ishmaelite ancestry headed by the clan of Kedar Qedarites . ref name Langep268 Lange, 2004, pp. 268 269. ref According to Lange, Ruda was the moon deity , Nuha deity Nuha the sun deity , and Atarsamain the main deity was associated with Venus . ref name Langep268 Inscriptions in a Ancient North Arabian North Arabian dialect found in the region of Najd refer to Ruda and other gods of the Arab pantheon, providing evidence of how all things good and bad were attributed to the agency of gods. ref name Hoylandp207 Hoyland, 2001, p. 207. ref Examples of such inscriptions referring to Ruda include, by Ruda are we and by Ruda is weeping . ref name Hoylandp207 A trinity of gods representing the sun, moon and Venus is also found among the peoples of the South Arabian kingdoms of Kingdom of Awsan Awsan , Ma in , Qataban and Hadramawt between the 9th and ... more details
Fertile Crescent myth Arabian Nuha is a deity that was worshipped among the Tribes of Arabia Northern Arabian tribes in pre Islamic Arabia . Associated with the sun, she formed part of a trinity of gods, along with Ruda deity Ruda and Atarsamain . Meaning Nuha, from the triliteral consonantal Semitic root N H Y, may mean the wise . ref name Retsop602 Rets , 2003, p. 602. ref An early Akkadian language Akkadian inscription from the annals of the kings of the Assyrian empire mentions Nuha with the epithet the elevated sun . ref name Retsop602 While this reference can be read literally to mean that Nuha was associated with the sun, it can also be read metaphorically as a reference to special kind of wisdom. ref name Retsop602 Worship Dierk Lange writes that Nuha formed part of a trinity of gods worshipped by what he calls the Yumu il confederation, which he describes as a northern Arab tribal confederation of Ishmaelites Ishmaelite ancestry headed by the clan of Kedar Qedarites . ref name Langep268 Lange, 2004, pp. 268 269. ref According to Lange, Nuha was the sun deity , Ruda deity Ruda the moon deity , and Atarsamain the main deity was associated with Venus . ref name Langep268 A trinity of gods representing the sun, moon and Venus is also found among the peoples of the South Arabian kingdoms of Kingdom of Awsan Awsan , Ma in , Qataban and Hadramawt between the 9th and 4th centuries BC. ref name Langep268 There, the deity associated with Venus was Astarte , the sun deity was Yam god Yam , and moon deity was variously called Wadd , Amm god Amm and Sin mythology Sin . ref name Langep268 Inscriptions Inscriptions in a Ancient North Arabian North Arabian dialect in the region of Najd referring to Nuha describe emotions as a gift from her and the other gods. For example, one reads, by Nuha is the flying into a rage, while another reads, by Nuha is the jealousy of a lover. ref name Hoylandp207 Hoyland, 2001, p. 207. ref Other inscriptions indicate that all things good and ... more details
. Hadramaut annexed Qataban in the second half of the 2nd century CE, reaching its greatest size. The kingdom ... Asfal . Kingdom of Qataban 4th century BCE 3rd century CE Main QatabanQataban was one of the ancient ... of Qataban was named Timna and was located on the trade route which passed through the other ... Kingdom The Himyarites rebelled against Qataban and eventually united Southwestern Arabia, controlling ... text notes that Hadramaut and Qataban were also all allied against the kingdom. As a result of this, the Aksumite ... more details
South Arabia as a general term refers to several regions as currently recognized, in chief the Republic of Yemen yet it has historically also included Najran Province Najran , Jizan Province Jizan , and Asir which are presently in Saudi Arabia , and Dhofar presently in Oman . The frontiers of South Arabia as linguistically conceived would include the historic peoples speaking the related South Arabian languages as well as neighboring dialects of Arabic, and their descendants. Anciently there was a South Arabian alphabet , which was borrowed by Ethiopian alphabet Ethiopia . South Arabia as generally conceived would include the lands inhabited by peoples partaking of its distinctive traditions and culture, which overlap recently demarcated political boundaries. Yemen or al yaman means the south . One etymology derives Yemen from yamin the right side as the south is on the right when facing the sunrise yet this etymology is considered suspect. Another derives Yemen from yumn meaning felicity as the region is fertile indeed the Romans called it Arabia Felix. ref Mackintosh Smith, Yemen London John Murray 1997 at 8. ref In an ancient, traditional Arabian genealogy , the people of the peninsula are divided between north and south, those of the north descending from Ishmael and Adnan from whom Muhammad descended , and those of South Arabia being the descendants of Qahtanite Qahtan or Joktan Yoqtan and Jokshan . ref Robert G. Hoyland, Arabia and the Arabs London Routledge 2001 at 58 59. ref Three thousand years ago several different state entities occupied the region of South Arabia , e.g., Minaeans M ain , Qataban , Hadhramaut , Sabaeans Saba . ref Brian Doe, South Arabia London Thames & Hudson 1971 at 60 102. ref In these ancient times South Arabia claimed several notable features, e.g., the famous Dam of Marib dam at Marib , the cosmopolitan Incense Route incense trade , as well as the legendary Queen of Sheba . ref Jean Francois Breton, Arabia Felix University of Notre ... more details
that Kingdom of Aksum Aksum , Saba , Hadramaut , and Qataban were all allied against Himyar. ref ... been held by Aksum after the Aksum Hadramaut Qataban Saba alliance. ref name A72 Despite this loss ... more details
Qataban in the second half of the 2nd century AD, reaching its greatest size. During this period, Hadramaut ... small kingdoms of South Arabia. Image qataban lion bronze.jpg thumb left Bronze lion with a rider .... Qataban , which lasted from the 4th century BCE to 200 CE, was one of the ancient Yemeni kingdoms ... from the trade of frankincense and myrrh incense which were burned at altars. The capital of Qataban ... parts of modern Yemen include Qataban and the coastal string of watering stations known as the Hadhramaut ... affairs, signing an alliance with Saba , and a Himyarite text notes that Hadramaut and Qataban ... more details
of the Qataban Kingdom of Qataban light blue was based on the cultivation and trade of spices and aromatics ... of Qataban, Saba , Ma in , Palestine up to Gaza. ref name Archibald1 Archibald 2001 ... more details
about the ancient kingdom the 19th century American racehorse Himyar horse Infobox Former Country native name conventional long name Himyarite Kingdom common name Himyarite Kingdom capital city was yafi national motto continent Asia region Middle East country Yemen era ancient history Antiquity government type Monarchy year start 110 BC year end 520s event start event end p1 flag p1 s1 Aksumite Empire flag s1 image coat image map Map of Aksum and South Arabia ca. 230 AD.jpg image map caption Himyarite Kingdom red in the 3rd century AD. capital Zafar br San a poss. 500s common languages Himyarite language Himyarite religion Paganism br Judaism br Christianity currency title leader King leader1 Dhu Nuwas year leader1 510s 520s File MapHymiariteKingdom.jpg thumb The Homerite Kingdom is described in the southern tip of the Arabian peninsula in the 1st century Periplus of the Erythraean Sea . File HymiariteKingdomAugustusImitation1stCenturyCE.jpg thumb Coin of the Himyarite Kingdom. This is an imitation of a coin of Augustus . 1st Century CE. The Himyarite Kingdom or Himyar in Arabic mamlakat imy r , anciently called Homerite Kingdom by the Greeks and the Romans, was a state in ancient Yemen dating from 110 BC taking the modern day city of Sanaa as its capital after the ancient city of Zafar, Yemen Zafar . It conquered neighbouring Sheba Saba Sheba in c.25 BC, Qataban in c.200 CE and Hadramaut c.300 CE. Its political fortunes relative to Saba changed frequently until it finally conquered the Sabaean Kingdom around 280 CE. ref See, e.g, Bafaqih 1990. ref History The Himyarite Kingdom was the dominant polity in Arabia until 525 AD. Its economy was based on agriculture, and foreign trade centered on the export of frankincense and myrrh . For many years, the kingdom was also the major intermediary linking East Africa and the Mediterranean world. This trade largely consisted of exporting ivory from Africa to be sold in the Roman Empire . Ships fro ... more details
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