entity · site_nashshan
Nashshān
Jawf settlement and early city-state attested archaeologically and epigraphically near and after 800 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.
900 BCE–600 BCE
Precision: range
- informs · provides archaeological observation
Nashshān: An Early City-State of the Jawf — French Ministry of Culture (2025)Provides the site’s early sequence.
Locator: Origins, temple phases and four eighth-century inscriptions - 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 critical editions of early texts.
Locator: Nashshān corpus entries and contextual commentaries
Research description
Nashshān is securely historical in the eighth century BCE and later. Possible ninth-century origins are retained as approximate archaeology, not projected backward as a second-millennium kingdom.
Evidence and sources
- supports · provides archaeological observation
Nashshān: An Early City-State of the Jawf — French Ministry of Culture (2025)Provides the site’s early sequence.
Locator: Origins, temple phases and four eighth-century inscriptions - 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 critical editions of early texts.
Locator: Nashshān corpus entries and contextual commentaries
Referenced records
- Jawf and Hadramawt research zone · entity