Gl 1598 A 496
Höfner 1981: pl. III, fig. 2
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 2.5 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Construction text - fragmentary |
TEXT
1 [... ...](ʾ)yt ʾw[.]ḍ w-bny-hw [... ...]
2 [... ...]m bnw Mṯwʾm yfʿw b[... ...]
3 [... ...] bytn (t)s¹(m)ʾn ḏt thwn [... ...]
4 [... ...](n) ḏ[.]trm w-b-tḥt (ḥ)ṯ[.]r b(n) [... ...]
5 [... ...]m w-brʾw w-hwṯwr kl (ʾ)[... ...]
6 [... ...]ṭ[... ...] w-l hs²q(r) [... ...]
| 3 | ts¹mʾn may be either the name of the building (formed on a verb s¹mʾ, related to Arabic s¹mʾ "to be elevate, high", which suits with high construction), or a form of the verb s¹my. In the first case, ḏ-thwn is a verb from the root hwn (in Mehri, hawīn "crumbling"). In the second case, Thwn is the name of the building. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 [… ...] ʾw[.]ḍ and his sons [… …] 2 [… ...] of the family Mṯwʾm, they rised up [… ...] 3 [… ...] the house Ts¹mʾn which was in bad shape (?) [… ...] 4 [… ...] and beneath [… …] 5 [… …] and they built and laid the foundations of all […] 6 [… …] completed [… ...] |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Stone inscription |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | an-Nakhlat al-Ḥamrāʾ |
| Ancient site | Yklʾ |
| Geographical area | al-Ḥadaʾ |
| Country | Yemen |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Höfner 1981: 17-18, pl. III, 2 | Höfner, Maria 1981. Sabäische Inschriften. (Letzte Folge). Sammlung Eduard Glaser. 14. (Sitzungsberichte der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 378). Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. |