Stone relief of a royal figure, c. 525 CE, from Ẓafār, a major capital city under Ḥimyarite rule. The archaeologist Paul Yule, who discovered this relief, has argued that Christianity had spread beyond Najrān into other urban centers of the Ḥimyarite kingdom in the pre-Islamic era. Image copyright Dr. Paul A. Yule, Heidelberg University (accessed via the Zafar Image Archive in heidlCON, Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg).
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