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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Northern Middle Sabaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Construction text |
GENERAL NOTES
| The author of this inscription from Najrān is a Minaean, who writes in Sabaic, the local language. No linguistic diagnostic feature allows to attribute the inscription to the Northern Middle Sabaic instead of the Central Middle Sabaic. However, the text, which probably dates between the 1st c. BCE and the 1st CE, likely relates to the Amīritic cultural milieu of Najrān. |
TEXT
1 ʿbdʿṯtr bn Ḥyʾl mʿnyn ṯfd w-bny w-
2 hwṯr mḥfd-hw Yfʿn b-mqm ḏ-S¹mw(y) (w)—
3 ʿṯtr w-Wdm w-bʿl mkntn
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 ʿbdʿṯtr son of (i.e. of the family) Ḥyʾl, the Minaean, erected (?) and built and 2 founded his tower Yfʿn, with the authority of ḏ-S¹mwy and 3 ʿṯtr and Wdm and the Lord of the shrine (?). |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Sima 1998 a: 246-249, pl. 42.a | Sima, Alexander 1998. Anmerkungen zu einigen jüngst publizierten Felsinschriften aus Saudi-Arabien. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 88: 229-259. |
| al-Hajj 2018 a: 131-139, fig. 20 | al-Hajj, Mohammed 2018. Fī taʾrīkh Najrān qabla al-islām. Nuqūsh musnadiyya min mawqiʿ Najrān. al-Riyāḍ: Jāmiʿat al-Malik Saʿūd. |