Site in northern Yemen on the Wadi Dhana that is associated with Sabaean kingdom of the South Arabian civilization. It was the capital of the kingdom of Saba'. A dam was built across the wadi in the mid-1st millennium BC and used until the mid-1st millennium AD. The temple of Haram Bilqis (Awwam) still stands. The temple of Almaqah, also in Marib, had an unusual shape, that of an ellipse with a major axis about 345 feet long, with a strong wall about 28 feet high, built of fine limestone ashlars. A small temple, in front of which were eight standing pillars, comprises a gallery supported by pillars around a rectangular court; it served as a peristyle to the main temple, in the wall of which it was inserted