Yemen: Qatabanian funerary statuette of one Amma'alay of the Dharah'il clan. Alabaster, 1st century BCE, Hayd ibn Aqil

Qataban was an ancient Yemeni kingdom. Its heartland was located in the Baihan Valley. Like some other Southern Arabian kingdoms it gained great wealth from the trade of frankincense and myrrh incense which were burned at altars. The capital of Qataban was named Timna and was located on the trade route which passed through the other kingdoms of Hadramaut, Sheba and Ma'in. The chief deity of the Qatabanians was Amm, or 'Uncle' and the people called themselves the 'children of Amm'.

Qataban was the most prominent Yemeni kingdom in the 2nd half of the 1st millennium BCE.

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