Great Dam of Ma'rib
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors:
Jérémie Schiettecatte, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Oct 13, 2022 06:09 PM
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History
The Great Dam of Ma'rib, which spanned the gorge of the Wâdî Dhana and fed a massive irrigation system dependent on the seasonal flooding (sayl) of the wadi, dates originally to the eighth century BCE and was connected with the Sabaean and Himyarite kingdoms around the ancient city of Ma'rib in modern Yemen. It is reported to have failed catastrophically in the 8th century CE, leading to the collapse of irrigation-dependent agriculture and a mass depopulation of the area.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/458819047
15.4017548458, 45.2681692643
- Representative Locations:
- OSM Location of ancient north wadi canal (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- OSM Location of ancient north wadi canal (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Imagery location of north sluice (800 BC - AD 699) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- OSM Location of Ancient Dam of Marib (800 BC - AD 699) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Imagery location of south sluice (800 BC - AD 699) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Great Dam of Ma'rib located at Mari(a)ba (unspecified date range)
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canal, dam, dike, levee
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Pleiades
Jeffrey Becker, Jérémie Schiettecatte, and Tom Elliott, 'Great Dam of Ma'rib: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/458819047> [accessed: 23 April 2024]
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