The City-States of the Jawf at the Dawn of Ancient South Arabian History (8th-6th Centuries Bce). I

At the dawn of the Ancient South Arabian civilization, at the beginning of the first millennium BCE, cities and tribes were autonomous and had a leader, probably a king. Starting from the VIII century BCE, the inscriptions multiply and attest to the names of the rulers of the cities and the states of southern Arabia. Under the impulse of the kings of Saba, the small political entities will gradually be integrated into larger kingdoms. The case of the city-states of the Jawf region of Yemen, which will be absorbed for the most part by the kingdoms of Ma n and Saba? since the 6th century BCE, is emblematic of this historical process.