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

Christian J. Robin, 2001; Robin 2001 a: 209, fig. 2

Christian J. Robin, 2001
Robin 2001 a: 209, fig. 2

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

Language	Ancient South Arabian » Ḥaḍramitic
Alphabet	Ancient South Arabian
Script typology	Monumental writing
Writing technique	Incision

GENERAL NOTES

According to the editor, based on paleographical analysis, the inscription could be dated to the 1st-2nd AD (Ch. Robin 2001a, 214).

TEXT

Apparatus

1	Ḥrṯm: this name is attested in other Ancient North Arabian inscriptions.
1-2	hdy: it could be a noun or a verb, the editor prefers the second hypotesis (Ch. Robin 2001a, 212-213).
2	ʿrn: it is an hapax. According to the following adjectives, it is a female noun. The editor links this noun to Arabic ʿīr "caravan".

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support type	Rock inscription
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin and provenance

Modern site	Shisʿāʾ
Ancient site	Unknown
Geographical area	Jabal Kawkab
Country	Saudi Arabia
Found	In situ
Notes	The plain of Shisʿa is located between Ḥimā and Kawkab, 110-115 km north-north-east of Najrān.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Robin 2001 a: 211, fig. 2	Robin, Christian J. 2001. «La caravane yéménite et syrienne» dans une inscription de l'Arabie méridionale antique. Pages 207-216 in Bruno Halff, Floréal Sanagustin, Margaret Sironval and Jacqueline Sublet (eds). L'Orient au coeur en l'honneur d'André Miquel. (Collection Orient-Méditerranée). Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose.
Robin 2013: 126, figs 3-4.	Robin, Christian J. 2013. À propos de Ymnt et Ymn: « nord » et « sud », « droite » et « gauche », dans les inscriptions de l'Arabie antique. Pages 119-140 in Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet, Catherine Fauveaud and Iwona Gajda (eds). Entre Carthage et l’Arabie heureuse. Mélanges offerts à François Bron. (Orient & Méditerranée, 12). Paris: de Boccard.