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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 |
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Construction text - fragmentary (conjectural) |
TEXT
1 [... ... ](ʿ)myṯʿ ʾl w-Lḥyʿm
2 [... ... ]w ʾlʿz w-ḏ-L(g)dm w-
3 [... ...]-(h)w Nwydn br(ʾ)w |
| Apparatus |
| 1 | The editor reads ḏt instead of ʾl. | | 2 | The editor reads ʾlʿt w-ḏ-Lḥdm. | | 3 | The text might have continued on a fourth line. |
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OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Banī Bakr, Storehouse |
| Support type | Stone inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 17, w. 26, th. 4 |
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Bāṭāyiʿ 2002: 267, pl. 4/b | Bāṭāyiʿ, Aḥmed 2002. Ahammiyya mawqiʿ Hadīm Qaṭnān (Hdw) fī al-ḥadd min ḫilāl al-muʿṭayāt al-aṯariyya wa-l-naqšiyya. Maǧallat Ğāmiʿa ʿAden li-l-ʿulūm al-iǧtimāʿiyya wa-l-insāniyya, 5/9: 265-287.
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