CSAI

Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions


INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic
AlphabetAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Measure of letters27 (max.); 26 (min.)

TEXT


   1  [... ... ]Yhnf bn( )S¹ḫymm bny[ ... ...]

Apparatus
1The name Yhnf is probably the second element of an onomastic formula.
Following H. Tschinkowitz bny is the verb "he built", but the translation is not sure.

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeStone inscription
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Provenance
Modern siteShibām al-Ghirās / Shibām Sukhaym
Ancient siteS²bmm
Geographical areaBanī Ḥushaysh
CountryYemen
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Tschinkowitz 1969: 9Tschinkowitz, Helga 1969. Kleine Fragmente. Sammlung Eduard Glaser. 6. (Sitzungsberichte der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 261/4). Vienna: Böhlau in Kommission.