CSAI

Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions


INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Southern Middle Sabaic
AlphabetAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Measure of letters3.7

GENERAL NOTES

The inscription comes from the same site as CIH 40.

TEXT


   1   [ḏ]-ʾbhy-mw b-ʾlmqh w-b S¹[..]

Apparatus
1The traces of the last two signs may be those of /m/ and /ʿ/. The name of the god S¹mʿ is however unexpected in the region of Maḏāb.

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  ... [of] (the month) ʾbhy. By ʾlmqh and by S¹[..].

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeStone inscription
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Provenance
Modern siteMadhāb (Surroundings)
Ancient siteUnknown
Geographical areaḌūrān
CountryYemen
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Tschinkowitz 1969: 10Tschinkowitz, Helga 1969. Kleine Fragmente. Sammlung Eduard Glaser. 6. (Sitzungsberichte der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 261/4). Vienna: Böhlau in Kommission.
Beeston 1956: 12, 17Beeston, Alfred F.L. 1956. Epigraphic South Arabian calendars and dating. London: Luzac.