Gr 64 Shibām Suḫaym 14
Bauer and Lundin 1998: 191, fig. 70
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Measure of letters | 3.5 | ||
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
GENERAL NOTES
| The typology is peculiar: before the dedicatory verb hqny, there is the verb s²ʾm. |
TEXT
1 Bnʾl Yhṣbḥ bn S¹ḫymm s²ʾm ḏn
2 ms³ndn w-hqny-hw Tʾlb bʿl Kbdm
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Bnʾl Yhṣbḥ, of the family S¹ḫymm, bought this 2 inscription and dedicated it to Tʾlb, Lord of Kbdm. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Stone inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 34, w. 66, th. 15 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Shibām al-Ghirās / Shibām Sukhaym |
| Ancient site | S²bmm |
| Geographical area | Banī Ḥushaysh |
| Country | Yemen |
| Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple Kbdm of Tʾlb |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Bauer and Lundin 1998: 13, fig. 70 | Bauer, Gleb M. and Lundin (=Loundine), Avraam G. 1998. Pamjatniki Drevnej Istorii i Kultury. Južnaja Aravija. Part 2: Epigraficheskie pamjiatniki drevnego Jemena. 2. St.-Petersburg: Zentr "Peterburgskoe vostokovedenie". [Akademia nauk, Institut Vostokovedenija, Sankt-Peterburgskiy filial] |