CSAI

Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions


Mordtmann and Mittwoch 1931: 89, fig. 53; Garbini 1970 b: pl. XXV/a; Grjaznevič 1978: fig. 25
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic
AlphabetAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Writing techniqueRelief
Textual typologyConstruction text - fragmentary

GENERAL NOTES

CIH wrongly reports a tab XXV for CIH 229. Fragments joined together by Garbini.
Rijziger 2018: 147 has doubts about joining CIH 213 here.

TEXT


   1  [Hw]fʿṯt w-Mrkḍm w-Lḥyʿṯ[t ... ...]±[... ...]byt Kʿ[... ...] ±[... ...] byt-hmw ʿṯtr S²rqn [... ...]±[... ... w-mnḍ]ḥ-hmw w-[... ...]±[... ... b-ʿṯ]tr S²rqn w-Hbs¹ w-ʾl[mqh ... ...]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeStone inscription
MaterialStone
Measuresh. 25, w. 30 (CIH 176); h. 20, w. 100 (CIH 213)
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Provenance
Modern siteḤāz
Ancient siteḤzym
Geographical areaHamdān
CountryYemen
FoundReemployed. In modern times
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Mordtmann and Mittwoch 1931: 89-92 (facsimiles)Mordtmann, Johannes H. and Mittwoch, Eugen 1931. Sabäische Inschriften. Rathjens-v. Wissmannsche Südarabischen-Reise. 1. Hamburg: Friederichsen, De Gruyter.
Grjaznevič 1978: 30, fig. 25Grjaznevič, Petr A. 1978. Materiali ekspedicii P.A. Grjaznevičia 1966-1967 gg. Južnaja Aravija. Pamjiatniki Drevnej Istorii i Kultury. 1. Moscow: Glavnaja redakzija vostočnoj literatury.
Garbini 1970 b: 537-538, pls. 25a, 26d, 28eGarbini, Giovanni 1970. Antichità yemenite II. Annali dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli, 30/4: 537-548.
Garbini 1974 b: 292Garbini, Giovanni 1974. Note di epigrafia sabea - II. Annali dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli, 34/2: 291-299.
Rijziger 2018: 147-148, fig. 27; 154, fig. 38; 156-157, fig. 45; 160, fig. 53Rijziger, Sarah 2018. Sabaean inscriptions from Ḥāz, Yemen. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 29/2: 135-171. 2019/10/02; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/aae.12111.