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A Note on rock Drawings from Wādī Hirjāb, Reported
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
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While engaged on Desert Locust Survey work, Mr. Walford came across the rock-drawings reproduced here, at a place he calls Thor es Sellim lying near the junction of the Wadi Kutne (Philby, 
Kutne) and the Wadi Hurjab (Philby, Harjab) which is clearly al-Hamdānī's Hirjāb, in the 
district (long. 42°–43°; lat. 19°–20°). The Wadi Hirjab is a tributary of the Wādī 
. The-drawings were discovered by Mr. Walford on the under side of an overhanging rock projecting into the wādī-bed, but his work unfortunately rendered it impossible for him to take more particulars than those given here. A second group of figures was found on another rock at a short distance from, and to the right of the first. As he states in a letter, ‘there were many groups of lettering of the fairly common South Arabian type on other rocks in the area, and perhaps more drawings’.
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- Notes and Communications
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- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , February 1962 , pp. 149
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- Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1962
References
page 149 note 1 Müller, D. H., Al-Hamdânî's Geographie, Leiden, 1884–1891, I, p. 215Google Scholar; cf. H.St. Philby, J. B., Arabian highlands, Ithaca, 1952, 118Google Scholar seq., for the district, and end map. Thor es Sellim is perhaps correctly to be read ṣawr al-Salīm, but this is uncertain. Al-Hamdānī also mentions Kutnah in several places but it does not seem to be the wādī shown by Philby as atributary of the Hirjāb.