CSAI

Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions


Höfner 1973: pl. XIV, fig. 2

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic
AlphabetAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Writing techniqueIncision
Measure of letters4.6
Textual typologyDedicatory text - fragmentary (conjectural)

TEXT


   1  [... ...]—
   2  nyw (S²m)s¹ w-qfw-S²ms¹
   3  [..] w-ʾqny-hmw w-ʾn[... ...]
   4  [.]dw ḥm[... ...]

Apparatus
1-2It may be restored as [hq]nyw.

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  [… ...] (they dedicated) to S²ms¹ and erected to S²ms¹ (a qyf)
   2  [… …] and their possessions and [… …]
   3  [… …]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeUnknown
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Provenance. Conjectural
Modern siteṢirwāḥ-Khawlān
Ancient siteṢrwḥ
Geographical areaṢirwāḥ
CountryYemen
NotesThe provenance from Ṣirwāḥ is hypothetical, see Höfner 1976: 23.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Höfner 1973: 68-69, pl. XIV, 2Höfner, Maria 1973. Inschriften aus Ṣirwāḥ, Ḫaulān. (I Teil). Sammlung Eduard Glaser. 8. (Sitzungsberichte der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 291/1). Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.