CSAI

Corpus of Sabaic Inscriptions (work in progress)


Ansaldi 1933: fig. 75/3
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic
AlphabetAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Writing techniqueRelief
Textual typologyConstruction text - fragmentary

TEXT


   1  [... ... w-b](ny) w-(h)wṯr (w)-(hs²)[qr ... ...]
   2  [... ...]ḏq(y)-hw w-kl ʾṣlm b-ʾʿ[... ...]
   3  [... ... b-H]bs¹ w-ʾlmqh w-b-ḏt Ḥ[mym ... ...]

Apparatus
2m]ḏqn-hw (Jamme).

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  [... ...] and built, laid foundations and completed [... ...]
   2  [... ...] his ? and all the statues [... ...]
   3  [... ...] by Hbs¹, ʾlmqh and by ḏt Ḥmym [... ...].

OBJECT INFORMATION

DepositṢanʿāʾ, The National Museum
Support typeStone inscription
MaterialStone
Measuresh. 30, w. 65
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Unknown
Modern siteUnknown
Ancient siteUnknown
Geographical areaUnknown
CountryUnknown
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Ryckmans, Gonzague 1937: 257Ryckmans, Gonzague 1937. Inscriptions sud-arabes. Quatrième série. Le Muséon, 50: 239-268.
Ansaldi 1933: fig 17/bAnsaldi, Cesare 1933. Il Yemen nella storia e nella leggenda. (Collezione di opere e di monografie a cura del Ministero delle colonie, 17). Rome: Sindacato italiano arti grafiche.
Tarcici 1974: 114, photographTarcici, Adnan 1974. The Queen of Sheba's Land, Yemen (Arabia Felix). Beirut: Nowfel.
Jamme 1954 b: 328-329Jamme, Albert W.F. 1954. Inscriptions du Musée de Ṣanʿāʾ, d'après les photographies de M.C. Ansaldi. Le Muséon, 67: 323-338.
Höfner 1966: 29, n. 61 (facsimile)Höfner, Maria 1966. Bearbeitung der von Carl Rathjens in Sabaeica I und II in Abbildungen veröffentlichten altsüdarabischen Inschriften, sowie einiger sonstiger von ihm gesammelter Inschriftensteine. (Carl Rathjens, Sabaeica. Bericht über die archäologischen Ergebnisse seiner zweiten, dritten und vierten Reise nach Südarabien. III). (Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Völkerkunde in Hamburg, 28). Hamburg: Kommissionsverlag Cram, de Gruyter and Co..
Lundin 1969: 15, fig. 1Lundin (=Loundine), Avraam G. 1969. Novye južnoarabskie nadpisi muzeja v Ṣanʿa (II). Epigrafika Vostoka, 19: 14-20.