Sabir (Yemen)
Sabir is a Bronze Age , prehistoric site in today's Yemen , about 25 km north of Aden , near the city of Lahj . The place has been explored intermittently since 1943. There have been German excavations there since 1994. It is the eponymous site of the Sabir culture .
The settlement of the place dates from about 1400 to 800 BC. The place is relatively large with approx. 1 × 2 km. Various adobe buildings were excavated in the center of the city, some of which had an inner courtyard. Residential buildings on the edge of the settlement were round and made of organic materials. Most of them only had post holes left. There were city quarters with pottery, metal processing and pearl production.
In the city center there was a 55 × 75 m building complex with various courtyards and buildings that had porticos. One of the buildings was perhaps a temple with 150 vessels in its storage rooms.
The discovery of this city already proves a high level of culture in southern Arabia with strong social differentiation for the second half of the second millennium BC . Human and animal figures were produced from clay, there were stone and copper tools and an important ceramic production facility.
literature
- B. Vogt: The Sabir culture and the Yemeni coastal plain in the 2nd half of the 2nd millennium BC Chr. In: In the land of the Queen of Saba, art treasures from ancient Yemen , Munich 2000, pp. 61–65
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Coordinates: 12 ° 59 '16.2 " N , 44 ° 58' 9.6" E