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

Simpson 2002: 206, figs. 305-307

Language

Ancient South Arabian » Ḥaḍramitic

Alphabet

Ancient South Arabian

Script typology

Monumental writing

Writing technique

Incision

Chronology

Period

English
1 ʾlḏrʾ ḏ-Trfm put (the goblet) for his Lord S¹yn ḏ-ʾlm, by the offerings he offered Him, as furniture of his palace S²bʿn.

For the translation of mws¹ṭ as "furniture" (based on Arabic mūsaṭ), instead of "inside" (SD: 163), see Multhoff and Stein 2008.

Multhoff and Stein 2008: 33-34	Multhoff, Anne and Stein, Peter 2008. Tempeldiebstahl und andere Schlechtigkeiten. Zwei verkannte sabäische Inschriften. Orientalia, 77/1: 1-44.

Origin and provenance

Breton 1993: 23, pls 9, 22, 23	Breton, Jean-François 1993. Les objets de luxe. Pages 23-41 in Jean-François Breton and Muḥammad ʿA. Bāfaqīh. Trésors du Wādī Duraʾ (République du Yémen). Fouilles franco-yémenites de la nécropole de Hajar am-Dhaybiyya. Paris: Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner.
Robin and Bāfaqīh 1993: 23, 71-72	Robin, Christian J. and Bāfaqīh, Muḥammad ʿA. 1993. Les inscriptions sur les objets. Pages 71-75 in Jean-François Breton and Muḥammad ʿA. Bāfaqīh. Trésors du Wādī Duraʾ (République du Yémen). Fouilles franco-yémenites de la nécropole de Hajar am-Dhaybiyya. Paris: Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner.
Simpson 2002: 206, cat. 306	Simpson, St John (ed.) 2002. Queen of Sheba. Treasures from the ancient Yemen. London: British Museum Press. [Catalogue of an exhibition held at the British Museum, London]
Multhoff and Stein 2008: 34	Multhoff, Anne and Stein, Peter 2008. Tempeldiebstahl und andere Schlechtigkeiten. Zwei verkannte sabäische Inschriften. Orientalia, 77/1: 1-44.
Jändl 2009: 172-173	Jändl, Barbara 2009. Altsüdarabische Inschriften auf Metall. (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 4). Tübingen: Wasmuth / Berlin: Wasmuth.

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