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Ja 506 A Nami NAG 20


Jamme 1954 e: pl. 1 (top)
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic
AlphabetAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Writing techniqueRelief
Chronology
PeriodD. Conjectural
Textual typologyConstruction text (conjectural)

GENERAL NOTES

The typology of the text is not sure. Jamme 1954 e: 42 translated hṯbw w-hgbʾn "ont présenté et offert", but a translation "repaired and plastered" seems more probable (see for example YMN 10, 3-4).

TEXT


   1  Whbʾwm ʾṣdq w-bn↯y-*h*w Ḏrḥʾl w-S¹ʿdṯ—
   2  wn bny ḏ-Ḫlfn ʾnmrm↯hṯbw w-hgbʾn

Apparatus
1-nw for -hw

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Jamme 1954 e: 42, pl. 1Jamme, Albert W.F. 1954. Trois plaques épigraphiques sabéennes du Musée de Ṣanʿâʾ. Bibliotheca Orientalis, 11/2: 42-43, pl. 1.
Lundin 1969: fig. 1Lundin (=Loundine), Avraam G. 1969. Novye južnoarabskie nadpisi muzeja v Ṣanʿa (II). Epigrafika Vostoka, 19: 14-20.