CIH 286
By kind permission of British Museum
- By kind permission of British Museum
- By kind permission of
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Relief | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Construction text |
GENERAL NOTES
| The writing in relief suggests that text could be from the Yemeni plateau; the date is no sure, also the period D is possible, but the presence of the verb bny suggests a period C. The provenance from Ṣirwāḥ named in the card index of the British Museum is incorrect. Its provenance is instead Jirʿān on the high plateau, see Wissmann 1964 a: 300 and map 17. The tex also appears on a false bronze artefact in the British Museum: BM 48484. |
TEXT
1 Whbm ʾẓlm w-Rbbm Yzʾn w-bn-hmw
2 |Ns²ʾkrb w-Tbʿʾl w-Ddkrb bn—
3 w Ġḍbm bnyw mqbr-hmw Rbḫm
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Whbm ʾẓlm and Rbbm Yzʾn and their sons 2 Ns²ʾkrb and Tbʿʾl and Ddkrb, of the family 3 Ġḍbm built their grave Rbḫm. |
| 3 | Rḫbm, with its meaning "abode of rest", is a name well suited to a tomb. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | London, The British Museum, BM 125136=1887,0629.34 |
| Support type | Stone inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 33, w. 113, th. 9 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Jirʿan |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | Arḥab |
| Country | Yemen |
| Archaeological context | Funerary context: Tomb Rbḫm |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Wissmann 1964 a | Wissmann, Hermann von 1964. Zur Geschichte und Landeskunde von Alt-Südarabien. Sammlung Eduard Glaser. 3. (Sitzungsberichte der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 246). Vienna: Böhlaus. |