Sabea
- Ancient name
- Saba
- Modern name
- Yemen, or possibly Eritrea
- Coordinates
- 13.137993, 44.115278
- World Historical Gazetteer
- https://whgazetteer.org/places/portal/8364366
Sabea or Sheba corresponds to the land of the Biblical figure of the Queen of Sheba, which is often identified as the ancient kingdom of Saba, located in southern Arabia and the Horn of Africa in present-day Yemen and Ethiopia. There was some uncertainty among scholars of Dati's day, as some traditions associated Sheba with Ethiopia and the Kingdom of Meroe on the other side of the Gulf of Aden; the Fra Mauro map (ca. 1450), however, locates it on the Arabian side.
The toponym Sabea appears in La Sfera in the following places:
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Map of the location P155
Variant spellings of Sabea in Sfera manuscripts
| Variant | Manuscripts |
|---|---|
| babilonia | ME2 |
| Saba | NYPL3 |
| Saban | Con3 |
| Sabbea | Borg |
| sabe | ME2 |
| sabea | Bal, Chig2, Laur5, Marc1, Pal5, Pal6, Pal8, Par1, Ricc6, Ro2, Spe |
| Sabea | Barb4, Bos, Cs1, Fo, He3, Magl2, Morg, NB, NYPL1, New, Parm2, Ricc13, Yale4 |
| SABEA | Ashb4, BL01, BL02, Barb3, Con1, Con4, Fn8, Fn9, He2, Laur3, Pnc4, Pnc5, Ricc11, Ricc12, Ricc14, Ricc8, To2, Urb1, Vat3 |
| SAbea | Chig1 |
| SAbeA | Ricc9 |
| sabem | Pad1 |
| sanbea | Fn12 |
| Sanbea | Ricc15 |
| sbea | Fn6 |
- Suggested citation
- Beneš, Carrie. “Sabea.” Gregorio Dati’s La sfera = The Globe: A Digital Edition, November 13, 2026. https://la-sfera-staging-a8db029690a6.herokuapp.com/toponyms/sabea/.