Bar'an Temple, Marib, Yemen
The Temple of Barran is a Sabaean temple near Ma'rib, Yemen; also known as "Throne of Bilqis". The temple is dedicated to the god Almaqah. The main features of the structure are the six columns and the sacred well in the middle of the courtyard. It was partly excavated by Wendell Phillips' expedition of 1951–1952.
Virtually all modern scholars agree that Sheba was the South Arabian kingdom of Saba, centered around the oasis of Marib, in present-day Yemen. Sheba was quite well known in the classical world, and its country was called Arabia Felix. Around the middle of the first millennium B.C., there were Sabaeans also in the Horn of Africa, in the area that later became the realm of Aksum.
Alphabetic inscriptions from South Arabia furnish no evidence for women rulers, but Assyrian inscriptions repeatedly mention Arab queens in the north. Queens are well attested in Arabia, though not after 690 B.C.
Bar'an Temple, Marib, Yemen
The Temple of Barran is a Sabaean temple near Ma'rib, Yemen; also known as "Throne of Bilqis". The temple is dedicated to the god Almaqah. The main features of the structure are the six columns and the sacred well in the middle of the courtyard. It was partly excavated by Wendell Phillips' expedition of 1951–1952.
Virtually all modern scholars agree that Sheba was the South Arabian kingdom of Saba, centered around the oasis of Marib, in present-day Yemen. Sheba was quite well known in the classical world, and its country was called Arabia Felix. Around the middle of the first millennium B.C., there were Sabaeans also in the Horn of Africa, in the area that later became the realm of Aksum.
Alphabetic inscriptions from South Arabia furnish no evidence for women rulers, but Assyrian inscriptions repeatedly mention Arab queens in the north. Queens are well attested in Arabia, though not after 690 B.C.