MAFRAY-ad-Durayb 3 Gl 1567
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Early Sabaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Script cursus | Boustrophedon | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Construction text - fragmentary | ||
| Royal inscription | Yes |
GENERAL NOTES
| This inscription, reemployed in the modern village of ad-Durayb, originally comes from the walls of the town of al-Asāḥil (ʿrrtm, mentioned in the text). |
TEXT
1 [K]rbʾl Wtr bn (Ḏ)[mrʿly mkr]—
2 [b S¹bʾ gnʾ ]ʿrrtm Rymn
| The disposition of the restored text between the lines is proposed by the editors. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 [K]rbʾl Wtr son of Ḏ[mrʿly mukarrib] 2 [of Sabaʾ walled] ʿrrtm (with) Rymn. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Inscription on architectural structure » Walls |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | w. 55 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | ad-Durayb |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | wādī Raghwān |
| Country | Yemen |
| Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
| Link to site record |
| Modern site | al-Asāḥil |
| Ancient site | ʿrrtm |
| Geographical area | wādī Raġwān |
| Country | Yemen |
| Archaeological context | Urban context: City walls |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Höfner and Solá Solé 1961: 37-38, pl. XVIII/2 | Höfner, Maria and Solá Solé, Josep M. 1961. Inschriften aus dem Gebiet zwischen Mārib und dem Ǧōf. Sammlung Eduard Glaser. 2. (Sitzungsberichte der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 238/3). Vienna: H. Böhlaus Nachf., Kommissionsverlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. |
| Robin and Ryckmans, Jacques 1980: 138-139, pl. 13/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. |
| Wissmann 1982: 109, fig. 19 (facsimile) | Wissmann, Hermann von 1982. Die Geschichte von Sabaʾ II. Das Grossreich der Sabäer bis zu seinem Ende im frühen 4. Jh. v. Chr. (Sitzungsberichte der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophischhistorische Klasse, 402). Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. [Walter W. Müller (ed.)] |