(Type of publication: article)
The Great Dam, Eduardo Glaser and the Chronology of Ancient Irrigation in Ma’rib
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AT-OeAW-BA-3-27-F-00242
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Authors:
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Vogt, Burkhard
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Book title:
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Sabaean Studies. Archaeological, Epigraphical and Historical Studies in Honour of Yūsuf M. ʿAbdallāh, Alessandro de Maigret, Christian J. Robin on the Occasion of Their Sixtieth Birthdays
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Locality:
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Paris
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Published by
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De Boccard
2009
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Pages:
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501-520
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Language:
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English
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Contents:
In his article, Burkhard Vogt deals with the attempts to date the Great Dam of Mārib, highlighting Eduard Glaser's approach of using epigraphic evidence.
In 1888, Eduard Glaser 'spent several days at the dam, preparing the first architectural plans, describing its structure and (...) studying the epigraphic evidence'. (p. 501)
He recorded a total of 21 inscriptions: four rock inscriptions at the South Sluice (GL 513, GL 514, GL 523 & GL 524 which he considered to be original) and 17 inscribed ashlars at the North Sluice.
According to Vogt, Glaser clearly distinguished between re-used dated and non-datable inscriptions. (p. 503)
The four rock inscriptions suggest that parts of the southern sluice were built during the time of the Sabaean mukarribs (= rulers) Sumhuʿalī Yanuf bin Ḏamarʿalī and his son Yiṯaʿʾamar Bayyin bin Sumhuʿalī Yanuf.
Glaser's main evidence, however, were the inscriptions of Šaraḥbiʾil Yaʿfur (CIH 540 / GL 554) and Abraha (CIH 541 / GL 618) found at the western end of spillway A of the North Sluice. (p. 503)
Recent radiocarbon analysis dates suggest that 'most of the northern sluice in its present shape was indeed built in 548 CE by Abraha and that Eduard Glaser's chronological attribution of the dam's North Sluice to the terminal pre-Islamic period is thus perfectly justified.' (p. 512)
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