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ID: 1087315
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1087315
Record Type:
administrative
Ma'rib (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 15 30 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 15.5000
decimal degrees
Long: 045 30 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 45.5000
decimal degrees
Note:
Ancient Sabaean city; was chief city of ancient Sheba; famous for its great dam, built in the 6th century BCE and tragically collapsed in the 7th century CE, destroying the settlement and flooding the countryside.
Names:
Ma'rib
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Marib
(
C
,
V
,
English-P
)
מריב
(
C
,
U
,
Hebrew
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Al Yaman
(nation) (
P
)
............
Ma’rib
(governorate) (
P
)
................
Ma'rib
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled by 10th cen. BC
town (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
capital (
H
)
............
of ancient Sheba
city (
H
)
............
great city was ruined in 6th cen.
commercial center (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
מריב..........
[
IMJ
]
...........
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Ma'rib..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Britannica Book of the Year (1992)
735
Marib..........
[
IMJ Preferred
,
VP
]
..............
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 570
..............
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..............
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
120
..............
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
730
Subject:
.....
[
IMJ
,
VP
]
..................
Britannica Book of the Year (1992)
735
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 570
..................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
120
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
730
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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