DASI: Digital Archive for the Study of pre-islamic arabian Inscriptions: Epigraph details

Avanzini 2002: 136, fig.11

Language

Ancient South Arabian » Ḥaḍramitic

Alphabet

Ancient South Arabian

Script typology

Monumental writing

Writing technique

Incision

Measure of letters

4 c.

Chronology

Period

Apparatus

1	Jamme reads confidently: qyf bny Lḥb ("Parts of the last four letters are almost completely destroyed; there remain enough of the inside cutting to ascertain their reading").
1-2	Avanzini suggests that it should be emended: bn<y>.
3	Jamme reads ʾs¹(r); Avanzini proposes ʾs¹[y].

English
1 Stele of the banu Lḥb who (i.e. which, Ed.) 2 built Yfrt Ynʿm, in order to be 3 located and be placed on the gate 4 and be placed in the (sacred) place of Sin.

Avanzini 2002: 136-137	Avanzini, Alessandra 2002. The construction inscriptions on the gate complex. Pages 125-140 in Alessandra Avanzini (ed.). Khor Rori Report 1. (Arabia Antica, 1). Pisa: Edizioni Plus-Università di Pisa.

English
1 Memorial [which] has built Lâḥib, son 2 of Yufrut Yunʿim, to 3 be attached and set up at the gate 4 and to be set up in the irrigated land of Sîn.

Jamme 1979	Jamme, Albert W.F. 1979. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe IX. Washington. 2019/07/23; https://cuislandora.wrlc.org/islandora/object/cuislandora%3A205328#page/1/mode/1up. [Privately printed]

English
1 Stela that Lḥb son of 2 Yfrt Ynʿm built, in order to be 3 ? and placed on the gate 4 and in order to be placed in the (sacred) place of S¹yn.

Deposit	Salālah, Museum, no. 4 (M 494)
Support type	Inscription on architectural structure » Gate
Material	Stone
Measures	h. 24, w. 35
Link to object record

Origin and provenance

Jamme 1979: 98-99, pl. j	Jamme, Albert W.F. 1979. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe IX. Washington. 2019/07/23; https://cuislandora.wrlc.org/islandora/object/cuislandora%3A205328#page/1/mode/1up. [Privately printed]
Albright 1982: 44, 87, pl. 36, fig. 67	Albright, Frank P. 1982. The American Archaeological Expedition in Dhofar, Oman, 1952-1953. (Publications of the American Foundation for the Study of Man, 6). Washington: American Foundation for the Study of Man / Philadelphia, Pa.: Distributed by G. Allen, Bookseller.
Avanzini 2002: 136-137, fig. 11	Avanzini, Alessandra 2002. The construction inscriptions on the gate complex. Pages 125-140 in Alessandra Avanzini (ed.). Khor Rori Report 1. (Arabia Antica, 1). Pisa: Edizioni Plus-Università di Pisa.

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