Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Early Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Cast | ||
Measure of letters | 5 | ||
Chronology |
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The text can be dated back to the end of period A, beginning of B. |
English | |
[... ...] 1 ... of Ns²qm, during the war 2 of ʾtmn, by ʿṯtr and by 3 ʾlmqh and by ḏt Ḥmym 4 and by ḏt Bʿdn and by ḏt 5 Ns²qm and by Ydʿʾl. |
Deposit | Unknown, Moussaïeff collection, The object is part of the Moussaïeff Collection. (Private collection) |
Support type | Artefact » Plaque » With framework |
Material | Bronze |
Measures | h. 38, w. 50 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | al-Bayḍāʾ |
Ancient site | Ns²qm |
Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī al-Buhayra |
Country | Yemen |
Notes | The origin from Ns²qm is hypothetic: it is inferred by the reference to the toponym in the text. |
Link to site record |
Bron 2004: 121-123, 120 (fig. 3) | Bron, François 2004. Nouvelles inscriptions sudarabiques sur bronze. Pages 118-126 in Alexander V. Sedov (ed.). Scripta Yemenica. Issledovanija po Južnoj Aravii. Sbornik naučnyh statej v čest' 60-letija M.B. Piotrovskogo. Moscow: Vostochna. |
Jändl 2009: 144 | Jändl, Barbara 2009. Altsüdarabische Inschriften auf Metall. (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 4). Tübingen: Wasmuth / Berlin: Wasmuth. |