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Early sites of Jabal Tyal YazTd 73
approached from the north and the southern ones from the route
leading up to the Jabal through al-Khadirah.

Notes

1. Jabal iyal YazTd is a nafiiyab of ‘Amran qafrV in the muhafazah of
$an‘ft\
2. Al-HamdanT, $ifat Jazlrat al-fArab, cd. D. H. Muller, Leiden,
1884-91, reprint 1968. There is also a new edition of this work edited by
M. al-Akwa\ al-Riyad, 1974, and a translation into German of the parts
relating to Yemen by L. Forrer, ‘Siidarabien, nach al-Hamd£ni’s
Beschreibung der Arabischen Halbinsel,' Abhandlungen fiir die Kunde
des Morgenlandes, XXVII, 3, reprint Liechtenstein, 1966.
3. Some of these sites were noted by Glaser and are mentioned in J.
Werdecker, ‘A Contribution to the Geography and Cartography of
North-West Yemen,’ Bulletin de la Socidtd Royale de Geographic
d’Egyptc, XX, 1939. The inscriptions referred to are in the epigraphic
south Arabian script. Some have already been brought to the notice of
scholars of the language but few, if any, have been published.
4. Map references arc taken from sheet 4 of the map The Yemen Arab
Republic and Neighbouring Areas, 1:125,000, UK, 1974. The 100’s of the
northings are ignored.
5. Administrative notes are taken from Nashrat al-taqslmat al-
idariyyah, 1 (Muhafa^at San‘a’), published by the Central Planning
Organisation, Yemen Arab Republic.
6. Al-HamdanT, $ifah, ed. Muller, 82, 111.
7. The text does not specify.
8. $ifah, 82, 112,203.
9. $ifah, 203.
10. Al-HamdanI, al-Iklil, VIII, ed. N. A. Faris, Princeton, 1940, 94.
11. The Bawn (al-Bawn) is the name of the plain to the north of the
$an‘a’ plain. Jabal ‘Iyal YazTd forms its western edge.
12. $ifah, 69, 112. lklil, VIII, 94, 111.
13. $ifah, 82, 111.