Gl 1536 A 439
Tschinkowitz 1969: pl. IV
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Southern Middle Sabaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 4.8-6.5 | ||
| Chronology |
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TEXT
1 s¹ṭr S²rḥʿṯt
2 grbyn b-ym gr—
3 b b-S¹lf
| 1-3 | The reading proposed follows Beeston’s. Tschinkowitz's reading: s¹ṭr S²rḥṯt grbyn b[.]m grb ḏ-S¹lf(n). |
| 2 | For Tschinkowitz, Grbyn may be a nisbe from a place Grb, near Bainūn, the place where was found the inscription. More probably, it is a common noun which means "stonemason". |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Inscription of S²rḥʿṯt, 2 the stonemason, when he did the masonry 3 work at S¹lf. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Rock inscription |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Baynūn |
| Ancient site | Bynn |
| Geographical area | Khawlân |
| Country | Yemen |
| Found | In situ |
| Notes | In the region of Baynūn. |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Tschinkowitz 1969: 18-19, pl. IV | Tschinkowitz, Helga 1969. Kleine Fragmente. Sammlung Eduard Glaser. 6. (Sitzungsberichte der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 261/4). Vienna: Böhlau in Kommission. |
| Beeston 1976 a: 412-413, 423 | Beeston, Alfred F.L. 1976. Notes on Old South Arabian lexicography X. Le Muséon, 89: 407-423. |