CSAI

Corpus of Sabaic Inscriptions (work in progress)


Garbini 1988: pl. 48/c
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Early Sabaic
AlphabetAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Writing techniqueIncision
Chronology
PeriodA
Textual typologyCommemorative text

TEXT


   1  ʾlt s³ʾk Ḏmryfʿ ʿm |
   2  Yṯʿʾmr Dnm w-ʾrydy |
   3  Byn
   4  /150/

Apparatus
3Because the engraver had forgotten the name Byn in l. 2, he added it immediately below Yṯʿʾmr. The letter n in Byn is dextrograde.

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  These has captured Ḏmryfʿ with
   2  Yṯʿʾmr Byn at Dnm and ʾrydy:
   3  150

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeRock inscription
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin and provenance
Modern siteShiʿb al-ʿAql
Ancient siteDnm (?) / ʾrydy (?)
Geographical areaWādī Yalā
CountryYemen
FoundIn situ
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Garbini 1988: 34, pl. 48/cGarbini, Giovanni 1988. The inscriptions of Si'b al-'Aql, Al-Gafnah and Yala/Ad-Durayb. Pages 21-40 in Alessandro de Maigret (ed.). The Sabaean archaeological complex in the Wādī Yalā (Eastern Hawlān at-Tiyāl, Yemen Arab Republic). A preliminary report. (Istituto italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente. Centro studi e scavi archeologici. Reports and memoirs, 21). Rome: IsMEO.
Jamme 1989: 80Jamme, Albert W.F. 1989. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe XVII. Washington. 2019/07/23; https://cuislandora.wrlc.org/islandora/object/cuislandora%3A202034#page/1/mode/1up. [Privately printed]