Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Northern Middle Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Cast | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
Penitential inscription. The edition is based on a transcription by Khalīl al-Zubayrī. |
English | |
1 Qlfm, daughter of Mltm, 2 confessed and did penance to ḏ- 3 S¹mwy, Master of ʾḏnn, because 4 she had her period in His 5 temple and she arrived on 6 Ġrrm, in His entrusting, and 7 she showed submission and distress and she will pay a fine. |
5-6 | ġrr: this is the first attestation of this word in the South Arabian inscriptions. The editor found the meaning of "white cloth" in the Classical Arabic dictionary "Lisān al-ʿArab" by Ibn Manẓūr. He traslated the sentence: "and she menstruated on a white cloth". Our translation is hypothetical, the meaning "to travel" for s¹fr is attested in the minuscule texts. |
al-Ṣilwī 2005: 111 | al-Ṣilwī, Ibrāhim 2005. Naqš ǧadīd min nuqūš al-iʿtiraf al-ʿalanī (naqš min maʿbad ʾḎNN). Dirāsa fī dalālāti-hi al-luġawiyya wad-dīniyya. Pages 109-121 in Amida Sholan, Sabina Antonini and Mounir Arbach (eds). Sabaean Studies (Dirāsāt Sabaʾiyya). Archaeological, epigraphical and historical studies in honour of Yūsuf M. ʿAbdallāh, Alessandro de Maigret, Christian J. Robin on the occasion of their sixtieth birthdays. Naples: Università degli studi di Napoli l'Orientale. [University of Ṣanʿāʾ; Yemeni-Italian Centre for Archeological Reserches Ṣanʿāʾ; Centre français d'archéologie et de sciences sociales de Ṣanʿāʾ] |
Support type | Artefact » Plaque » With framework |
Material | Bronze |
Measures | h. 21, w. 15 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Unknown |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | wādī al-Jawf |
Country | Yemen |
Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of ḏ-S¹mwy bʿl ʾḏnn |
Notes | Note that a temple of ʿṯtr bʿl ʾḏnn is attested in Nashshān (cf. Moussaieff 22 and al-Saʿīd 2005). |
Link to site record |
al-Ṣilwī 2005: 109-121 | al-Ṣilwī, Ibrāhim 2005. Naqš ǧadīd min nuqūš al-iʿtiraf al-ʿalanī (naqš min maʿbad ʾḎNN). Dirāsa fī dalālāti-hi al-luġawiyya wad-dīniyya. Pages 109-121 in Amida Sholan, Sabina Antonini and Mounir Arbach (eds). Sabaean Studies (Dirāsāt Sabaʾiyya). Archaeological, epigraphical and historical studies in honour of Yūsuf M. ʿAbdallāh, Alessandro de Maigret, Christian J. Robin on the occasion of their sixtieth birthdays. Naples: Università degli studi di Napoli l'Orientale. [University of Ṣanʿāʾ; Yemeni-Italian Centre for Archeological Reserches Ṣanʿāʾ; Centre français d'archéologie et de sciences sociales de Ṣanʿāʾ] |