DASI: Digital Archive for the Study of pre-islamic arabian Inscriptions: Epigraph details

Mordtmann and Mittwoch 1931: 98, figs 69-70; Image free from copyright

Mordtmann and Mittwoch 1931: 98, figs 69-70
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Mordtmann and Mittwoch 1931: 98, figs 69-70
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Rijziger 2018: 146, fig. 22

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

Language	Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic
Alphabet	Ancient South Arabian
Script typology	Monumental writing
Writing technique	Relief

GENERAL NOTES

According CIH, the two fragments belong togheter, which is not necessary the case (Rijziger 2018: 146)

TEXT

Apparatus

1	At the end of the first fragment bʿl W[ʾl] (CIH); in the second fragment Mordtmann and Mittwoch suggest to integrate b-rd]ʾ, but the l, after ʾ is clear.

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support type	Stone inscription
Material	Stone
Measures	h. 15, w. 80 (RW 26)
Link to object record

ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Provenance

Modern site	Ḥāz
Ancient site	Ḥzym
Geographical area	Hamdān
Country	Yemen
Found	Reemployed. In modern times
Link to site record

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Mordtmann and Mittwoch 1931: 98 (facsimiles)	Mordtmann, Johannes H. and Mittwoch, Eugen 1931. Sabäische Inschriften. Rathjens-v. Wissmannsche Südarabischen-Reise. 1. Hamburg: Friederichsen, De Gruyter.
Rijziger 2018: 146, fig. 22	Rijziger, Sarah 2018. Sabaean inscriptions from Ḥāz, Yemen. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 29/2: 135-171. 2019/10/02; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/aae.12111.