CSAI

Corpus of Northern Middle Sabaic Inscriptions (work in progress)


By kind permission of Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Northern Middle Sabaic
AlphabetAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Writing techniqueIncision
Chronology
PeriodC. Conjectural

GENERAL NOTES

Robin and Prioletta date back the text to the 2nd-1st cent. BC, on the basis of their palaeographical analysis.

TEXT


   1  nfs¹ w-blwt Ġzwm bnt ʿ—
   2  s²s²m w-Ns²lm bnt ʿbdlt |
   3  Hgrytnhn

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  Funerary stela and tomb of Ġzwm, daughter of ʿ-
   2  s²s²m, and of Ns²lm, daughter of ʿbdlt,
   3  those from Hgr.

OBJECT INFORMATION

DepositWien, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Sem 20
Support typeArtefact » Stela (nfs¹ w-blwt)
MaterialStone
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin
Modern siteUnknown
Ancient siteUnknown
Geographical areaUnknown
CountryUnknown
Archaeological contextFunerary context
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Robin 1992 a: 93-94, pl. 8/bRobin, Christian J. 1992. Inabbaʾ, Haram, al-Kāfir, Kamna et al-Ḥarāshif. Fasc. A: Les documents. Fasc. B: Les planches. Inventaire des inscriptions sudarabiques. 1. Paris: de Boccard / Rome: Herder. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres; Istituto italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente]
Stein 2007: 45Stein, Peter 2007. Materialien zur sabäischen Dialektologie: Das Problem des amiritischen ("haramischen") Dialektes. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 157: 13-47.
Robin and Prioletta 2013: 136, 167, fig. 8Robin, Christian J. and Prioletta, Alessia 2013. Nouveaux arguments en faveur d'une identification de la cité de Gerrha avec le royaume de Hagar (Arabie orientale). Semitica et Classica, 6: 131-185.