MAFRAY-al-Asāḥil 3
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Early Sabaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Script cursus | Boustrophedon | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 10 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Construction text | ||
| Royal inscription | Yes |
GENERAL NOTES
| The inscription is a palimpsest: traces of a former text are visible. |
TEXT
1 Yṯʿʾmr Byn bn S¹mhʿly
2 mkrb S¹bʾ gnʾ ʿrrtm
| The inscription is scarcely readable, as it was written on a previously erased text, of which the editors can read the first (Ydʿʾl) and the last (Yṯʿn) words, on the right side of the current text. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Yṯʿʾmr Byn son of S¹mhʿly, 2 mukarrib of Sabaʾ, walled ʿrrtm. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Inscription on architectural structure » Walls |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 45, w. 129 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | al-Asāḥil |
| Ancient site | ʿrrtm |
| Geographical area | wādī Raġwān |
| Country | Yemen |
| Found | In situ |
| Archaeological context | Urban context: City walls |
| Notes | The stone is part of the S-E city walls. |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Robin and Ryckmans, Jacques 1980: 125-127, pl. 7/a | Robin, Christian J. and Ryckmans, Jacques 1980. Les inscriptions de al-Asâḥil, ad-Durayb et Ḫirbat Saʿûd. (Mission Archéologique Française en République Arabe du Yémen: prospection des Antiquités Préislamiques, 1980). Raydān, 3: 113-182. |