entity · arch_jawf_city_states
Early Jawf city-states
Nashshān, Kamna, Haram, Maʿīn/Qarnā and Inabbaʾ as epigraphically visible city-states in the eighth to sixth centuries BCE.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
800 BCE–600 BCE
Precision: range
- informs · provides primary evidence
The City-States of the Jawf at the Dawn of Ancient South Arabian History (8th–6th Centuries BCE), I: From Cities to Kingdoms — Mounir Arbach (2022)Provides the historical reconstruction.
Locator: Vol. I, city-state chapters - informs · provides primary evidence
The City-States of the Jawf at the Dawn of Ancient South Arabian History (8th–6th Centuries BCE), II: Corpus of the Inscriptions — Irene Rossi (2022)Provides the textual basis.
Locator: Vol. II corpus and contextual entries
Research description
The collective label describes a securely historical first-millennium horizon. It is not mapped into the second millennium and does not imply identical institutions or one confederated territory.
Evidence and sources
- supports · provides primary evidence
The City-States of the Jawf at the Dawn of Ancient South Arabian History (8th–6th Centuries BCE), I: From Cities to Kingdoms — Mounir Arbach (2022)Provides the historical reconstruction.
Locator: Vol. I, city-state chapters - supports · provides primary evidence
The City-States of the Jawf at the Dawn of Ancient South Arabian History (8th–6th Centuries BCE), II: Corpus of the Inscriptions — Irene Rossi (2022)Provides the textual basis.
Locator: Vol. II corpus and contextual entries
Referenced records
- Jawf and Hadramawt research zone · entity