Abstract
The Sabeo-Assyrian synchronism between Sargon II (722-705 BC) and “Ita’amra the Sabaean” mentioned in Assyrian sources constitutes one of the foundations for the chronology of South Arabia. Since the 2003 publication of the inscription AO 31929, and the 2005 discovery of the inscription DAI-Ṣirwāḥ 2005-50 by the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut of Ṣan‘ā’, the Sabaean sovereign Yaṯa‘’amar Watār son of Yakrubmalik mukarrib of Saba’, author of these two texts, appears to be the best candidate for the identification of “Ita’amra the Sabaean”, calling into question the previous identification with Yaṯa‘’amar Bayān son of Sumhū‘alī. Yanūf. Several other new inscriptions, attesting further synchronisms for the second half of the 8th century BC between the kingdom of Saba’ and the cities of Nashshān and Ma‘īn, from the Jawf region in Yemen, support this new hypothesis.
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