RES 3973 Ja 531 H; Tazzer 11+12; RW 53+54
Mordtmann and Mittwoch 1931: 26, n. 7
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- Mordtmann and Mittwoch 1931: 26, n. 7
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Relief | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Construction text - fragmentary (conjectural) |
GENERAL NOTES
| Probably a text related to a tomb construction. |
TEXT
1 [... ...] Ḫs¹ʾm ḏ-ʾlhn w-[ʿ]qrbm ʾdm bny S¹ḫ[ymm ... ...]
2 [... ... b-rd]ʾ Qynn ʾlh Ḫs¹ʾm w-b-rdʾ m[r]ʾ-[hmw ... ...]
3 [... ...] ʿṯtr S²rqn [w]-ʾlh Ḫs¹ʾm bn mh[bʾs¹m ... ...]
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Stone inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 28, w. 43 (Tazzer 11); h. 28, w. 49 (Tazzer 12) |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Shibām al-Ghirās / Shibām Sukhaym |
| Ancient site | S²bmm |
| Geographical area | Banī Ḥushaysh |
| Country | Yemen |
| Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
| Archaeological context | Funerary context: Tomb |
| Notes | The inscription was reeployed in the tower-house at the beginning of the rise to the castle Ḥuṣn ḏū Marmar. |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Mordtmann and Mittwoch 1931: 26-28, n. 7, facsimile | Mordtmann, Johannes H. and Mittwoch, Eugen 1931. Sabäische Inschriften. Rathjens-v. Wissmannsche Südarabischen-Reise. 1. Hamburg: Friederichsen, De Gruyter. |
| Lundin 1969: 18, fig. 2 | Lundin (=Loundine), Avraam G. 1969. Novye južnoarabskie nadpisi muzeja v Ṣanʿa (II). Epigrafika Vostoka, 19: 14-20. |