CSAI

Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions


Solá Solé 1964: pl. XV, fig. 2
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic
AlphabetAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Measure of letters4.5
Chronology
PeriodB. Conjectural

TEXT


      [... ...]
   1  [...]w-yflṭ ʿmkrb bn S¹myʾ(m)—
   2  [r...] ḏt-Ḥmym ʾrḍtn l-ʾbrtw
   3  [...] ʿms²fq bn Mngḥm w-Lḥyʿ—
   4  [.bn ](F)tḥw(m) w-R(ġ)mhmw bn ʿmkr—
   5  [b... ...]

Apparatus
1-2Solá Solé integrates a r at the beginning of the line 2.
3-4The name Lḥyʿ may be completed as Lḥyʿ[ṯt], Lḥyʿ[t] or Lḥyʿ[m].
4The name [R]ġmhmw is uncertain: the third sign may be read ġ or b (the name Rġm occurs in the Minaic RES 3610, 1).

TRANSLATIONS

English

      
   1  […] and may ʿmkrb, son of
   2  S¹myʾmr, assign [... ...] ḏt-Ḥmym, the fields to ʾbrtw
   3  […] ʿms²fq, son of Mngḥm, and
   4  Lḥyʿ[... son of] Ftḥwm, and Rġmhmw, son of ʿmkrb
   5  [… …]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeUnknown
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Provenance
Modern siteJabal Riyām
Ancient siteTrʿt
Geographical areaArḥab
CountryYemen
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Solá Solé 1964: 48-49, pl. XV, fig. 2Solá Solé, Josep M. 1964. Inschriften aus Riyām. Sammlung Eduard Glaser. 4. (Sitzungsberichte der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 243/4). Vienna: Böhlaus.