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ATHALLAH (Al)—
A site of wide ruins and foundations in Qasun, in central Arabia, identified with that of
Al-Jaridah, the ancient capital of Qasim. It is situated on the left bank of the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Rummah, and to the north-east of Rass, on the Qasim-Hajj route. Doughty says that
at El-Ethelly {sic) there are wells and granges of the people of Rass. Al-Jaridah
is variously called Jaradah and Jarda.— [Doughty,)
'ATHAMIN—
The name of a ruined qasr, a cistern, and a range of low hills, all situated in north
eastern Arabia along the Darh Zubaidah between the two escarpments known respectively
as Jal-al-Batn and Jal Waqsah. Qasr'Athamin, now in ruins, lies nearly 4 miles to the
north of Jal-al-Batn ; and about 5 miles further on, in a slight depression of the ground,
is Birkat 'Athamin, a cistern some 16 yards square. It is visible at a considerable
distance on account of two brownish mounds to the north and south of it, formed from
the earth dug out when the cistern was made, and which, owing to the strange uniformity
of the desert hereabouts, are quite conspicuous.
To the north of Birkat 'Athamin is a chain, about 30 miles long, of isolated, flat-topped
hills, also bearing the name of 'Athamm. They are roughly eliptical in shape, and
average about 50 feet in height.— {Huber y 188L)
ATHAR (N ahr)—
A creek, with some habitations, in Fao {q, v.).
ATHlYAH (Birkat Qasr Ibn)—
A place on the Darb Zubaidah, in northern Arabia^ consisting of a round cistern and
a ruined qasr.—{Huber, 1881,)
ATHLAB (RCftrs -al)—
A cluster of hillidn near the southern end of the middle section of the Harrat-al
'Awairidh {q* v*),
ATHLAH—
A village in Qasim {q. v.)*
ATHLAH—
A hamlet near Zilfi {q, v.),
ATHLAH (U mm)—
A Bedouin camping-ground with wells in the division of Biyadh {q. v.) that lies inland
of Barr-al-'Oqair.
ATHLIB (Jabal)—
A solitary hill in the midst of the plain of A1 Ha jar, and close to the town of Madain Salih
on the Syrian Hajj route, and also on the Hejaz railway. Its craggy peak is well-known
to legend, and affords a good landmark to travellers. To the south of Athlib the plain
opens out to eastward. About this mountain are many Himyaritic inscriptions
{Doughty,)
9 ATIF (A l)—
A division of the Qahtan tribe {q* v.)*
'ATIFI—
A tribal district partly in southern Yemen and partly in the Aden Protectorate, (q.v.)
{Hunter's map of Arabia,)
? ATIJ—>
One of the rural tribes of 'Iraq {q, v»)»