CSAI

Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions

DASI

BaBa al-Ḥadd 1 CSAI II, 1


Bāfaqīh and Bāṭāyiʿ 1988: 75, pl.1/a
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Qatabanic » Marginal Qatabanic
AlphabetAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Writing techniqueIncision
Measure of letters4 (about)
Chronology
PeriodC
Textual typologyConstruction text

GENERAL NOTES

The text is set in the first century BC according to Robin 1998 a: 130-131.

TEXT


   1  Whbʾl Yḥḏ bn Mʿhr w-ḏ-Ḫwln
   2  w-bn-s¹ Ns²ʾkrb ḏ-Ḫwln bqrw w-rṯʿ w-s¹nbṭ bʾr-
   3  s¹my Ts¹kh Mtʿm Mʿhr ʾḥr w-Ṯwbn Mwhbm
   4  Krb tqdmw w-s¹qḥ ʿs²q bʾrn b-tḥrg mrʾ-
   5  (s¹my )Whbʾl
   6  w-Ns²ʾkrb

Apparatus
5-6Lines 5-6 are at the same level of ll. 1-2.

TRANSLATIONS

Avanzini 2004 a
English

   1  Whbʾl Yḥḏ he of Mʿhr and ḏ-Ḫwln
   2  and his son Ns²ʾkrb ḏ-Ḫwln dig out, constructed, and excavated their well
   3  Ts¹kh. Mtʿm Mʿhr ʾḥr and Ṯwbn Mwhbm
   4  Krb were in charge and completed the cutting (of the stones) of the well. By the authority of their lords
   5  Whbʾl
   6  and Ns²ʾkrb.
Avanzini 2004 a: 515Avanzini, Alessandra 2004. Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions I-III. Qatabanic, Marginal Qatabanic, Awsanite Inscriptions. (Arabia Antica, 2). Pisa: Edizioni Plus-Università di Pisa.

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeStone inscription
MaterialStone
Measuresh.32 w. 105, th. 40
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin and provenance
Modern siteKharibat al-ʿĀdī
Ancient siteUnknown
Geographical areaal-Ḥadd
CountryYemen
Archaeological contextAgricultural irrigation context: Well Ts¹kh
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bāfaqīh and Bāṭāyiʿ 1988: 62-63, pl. IBāfaqīh, Muḥammad ʿA. and Bāṭāyiʿ, Aḥmed 1988. Nuqūš min al-Ḥadd. Raydān, 5: 61-80. [Arabic section]
Robin 1998 aRobin, Christian J. 1998. Décompte du temps et souveraineté politique en Arabie méridionale. Pages 121-151 in Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet and Hélène Lozachmeur (eds). Proche-Orient ancien. Temps vécu, temps pensé. Actes de la table ronde du 15 novembre 1997 organisée par l'URA 1062 "Etudes Sémitiques". (Antiquités sémitiques, 3). Paris: Jean Maisonneuve.