General Description
The Yemeni Coastal Plain or Plateau is the northwestern region of modern Yemen that lies between the Red Sea and the Yemeni Mountains. Beginning in the ninth and eighth centuries BCE, this region became part of a wider "Sabaean" culture region (from the name of the dominant kingdom, Saba), in which many relatively small kingdoms across south and western Arabia, as well as Ethiopia, shared the same alphabet, the same iconographic repertoire (e.g. widespread depiction of animals such as ibexes and oryxes, and use of symbols such as hands, crescents, and circles), and the same vocabulary and turns of phrases in inscriptions.
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By this time, the influence of Saba over the region had diminished.
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At this time, the largest town in the Yemeni Coastal Plain was Marib, which covered an area of 100 hectares, for a population of about 30,000-40,000.
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It is unclear, however, what the average population of a single kingdom.
[1]: (Robin 2015: 94-96) Robin, Christian Julien. 2015. “Before Himyar: Epigraphic Evidence for the Kingdoms of South Arabia.” In Arabs and Empires before Islam, edited by Greg Fisher, 91-126. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Seshat URL: https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/ZMFH42PE.
[2]: (Korotayev 1994) Seshat URL: https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/EXB5JVFN.
[3]: (Edens and Wilkinson 1998: 96) Seshat URL: https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/itemKey/HGK23ABQ.
| Year Range | Kingdom of Saba and Dhu Raydan (ye_saba_k) was in: |
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| (110 BCE 149 CE) | Yemeni Coastal Plain |
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| Supracultural Entity | Sabaean Culture | Confident | 110 BCE 149 CE | ||||||||
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| Succeeding Entity | EtAksm1 | Confident | 110 BCE 149 CE | ||||||||
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Qatabanian Commonwealth (ye_qatabanian_commonwealth) [None] | Confident | |||||||||
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| Linguistic Family | Semitic | Confident | 110 BCE 149 CE | ||||||||
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| Language Genus | Afro-Asiatic | Confident | 110 BCE 149 CE | ||||||||
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| Language | Sabaic | Confident | 110 BCE 149 CE | ||||||||
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| Language | Mainic | Confident | 110 BCE 149 CE | ||||||||
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| Language | Qatabanic | Confident | 110 BCE 149 CE | ||||||||
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| Language | Hadramawtic | Confident | 110 BCE 149 CE | ||||||||
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| Language | Old Arabic | Confident | 110 BCE 149 CE | ||||||||
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| Religious Tradition | South Arabian Religions | Confident | 110 BCE 149 CE | ||||||||
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| Settlement Hierarchy | [2 to 4] | Confident | 110 BCE 149 CE | ||||||||
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| Irrigation System | Present | Confident | 110 BCE 149 CE | ||||||||
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| Road | Present | Confident | 110 BCE 149 CE | ||||||||
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| Written Record | Present | Confident | 110 BCE 149 CE | ||||||||
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| Script | Present | Confident | 110 BCE 149 CE | ||||||||
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| Phonetic Alphabetic Writing | Present | Confident | 110 BCE 149 CE | ||||||||
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| Non Phonetic Writing | Absent | Confident | 110 BCE 149 CE | ||||||||
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| Scientific Literature | Absent | Confident | 110 BCE 149 CE | ||||||||
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| Sacred Text | Absent | Confident | 110 BCE 149 CE | ||||||||
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| Religious Literature | Absent | Confident | 110 BCE 149 CE | ||||||||
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| Practical Literature | Absent | Confident | 110 BCE 149 CE | ||||||||
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| Philosophy | Absent | Confident | 110 BCE 149 CE | ||||||||
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| History | Absent | Confident | 110 BCE 149 CE | ||||||||
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| Fiction | Absent | Confident | 110 BCE 149 CE | ||||||||
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| Calendar | Present | Inferred | 110 BCE 149 CE | ||||||||
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| Wooden Palisade | Unknown | Suspected | 110 BCE 149 CE | ||||||||
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| Stone Walls Non Mortared | Unknown | Suspected | 110 BCE 149 CE | ||||||||
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| Stone Walls Mortared | Unknown | Suspected | 110 BCE 149 CE | ||||||||
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| Settlements in a Defensive Position | Unknown | Suspected | 110 BCE 149 CE | ||||||||
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| Modern Fortification | Absent | Confident | 110 BCE 149 CE | ||||||||
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| Moat | Unknown | Suspected | 110 BCE 149 CE | ||||||||
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| Fortified Camp | Unknown | Suspected | 110 BCE 149 CE | ||||||||
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| Earth Rampart | Present | Inferred | 110 BCE 149 CE | ||||||||
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| Ditch | Unknown | Suspected | 110 BCE 149 CE | ||||||||
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| Complex Fortification | Unknown | Suspected | 110 BCE 149 CE | ||||||||
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