Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Northern Middle Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Commemorative text | ||
Royal inscription | Yes |
Below the inscription, three letters are engraved: ʾbk. According to Arbach, this could be a personal name, attested for the first time in South Arabia, or the noun ʾb followed by the second person singular suffix pronoun -k "your father". |
English | |
1 S²ʿrm ʾwtr, king of Sabaʾ and 2 ḏu-Raydān, son of ʾlhn Nhfn, king 3 of Sabaʾ, when he came on the expedition to perform the pilgrimage 4 of the god to the sanctuary ḏ-Yġrw. |
Support type | Rock inscription |
Measures | h. 64 (inscribed surface) |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Unknown |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | wādī Shuḍayf |
Country | Yemen |
Found | In situ |
Notes | The text, found on a rock surface in the wādī Shuḍayf by the French archaeological mission in 1980, commemorates the pilgrimage for the god ḏ-S¹mwy to the sanctuary ḏ-Yġrw. |
Link to site record |
Bāfaqīh 1994 d: 38, fig. 7 | Bāfaqīh, Muḥammad ʿA. 1994. Ḏū Yaġruw wa-Amīr wa-Ḥanān fī ḍawʾ al-nuqūš. Pages 21-38 in Norbert Nebes. Arabia Felix. Beiträge zur Sprache und Kultur des vorislamischen Arabien. Festschrift Walter W. Müller zum 60. Geburtstag. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. |
Arbach 1996: 247-248, 250 (fig. 3) | Arbach, Mounir 1996. Deux nouvelles inscriptions sudarabiques provenant du sanctuaire de dhū-s-Samāwī à Yaghrū. Egitto e Vicino Oriente, 19: 243-250. |