| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Late Sabaic | ||||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Construction text |
| 4 | Integration at the end of the line on RES 5085/8. |
| 5-6 | Perhaps: [y]ḥyw. |
| 7 | Integration at the end of the line on Ry 520/7. |
| English | |
1 ʿbdm Brrn and his wife ʾbs²ʿr and their sons and daughters [... ...]- 2 s³tr and ʿmrt and Tʿmr [... ...] and ʿnd and of ʾflṯ [... ...] 3 of ʾḥym and their servants built and constructed their houses [... ... ] from 4 their foundation to their top by the grace of Rḥmnn and with the help of their lords 5 the kings, masters of the house of Raydān and of the Lord of the heaven [... ...] 6 put in life, with their good activity, respectable obedience of their persons and might the Lord of heaven save them, 7 from all harm and might grant them a good death [... ...] 8 Amen. In the month of Ḥltn in the year five hundred forty-two. |
| Deposit | Ẓafār, Museum |
| Support type | Stone inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Link to object record |
| Modern site | Ẓafār |
| Ancient site | Ẓfr |
| Geographical area | Ẓafār |
| Country | Yemen |
| Link to site record |
| Müller, Walter W. 2009: 247-255 | Müller, Walter W. 2009. Eine sabäische Inschrift aus Ẓafār aus Jahre 542 der himjarischen Ära. Pages 247-255 in Werner Arnold, Michael Jursa, Walter W. Müller and Stephan Procházka (eds). Philologisches und Historisches zwischen Anatolien und Sokotra. Analecta Semitica In memoriam Alexander Sima. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. |
| Müller, Walter W. 2010: 61 | Müller, Walter W. 2010. Sabäische Inschriften nach Ären datiert. Bibliographie, Texte und Glossar. (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission, 53). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. |