YMN 2 Bayt al-Aḥraq 2; CSAI II, 8
ʿAbdallāh 1979 a: pl. II
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Qatabanic » Marginal Qatabanic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 5.5 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Construction text |
GENERAL NOTES
| The inscription is parallel to a Sabaic text, set alongside of it (YMN 1). |
TEXT
1 Ḏrḥn bn ʾb[ḏḫr] bn
2 Ḫbzn w-Ḏrft qny w-brʾ
3 w-s¹qḥ mqbr-s¹ Ṣnʿn w-kl ms³—
4 wd-s¹ w-gnʾ-s¹ww w-kl ʿs²q-s¹
5 l-qtbr b-s¹ ʾḥrr w-ḥrtw by—
6 [t]-s¹ Ġyln
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Ḏrḥn son of ʾbḏḫr he of 2 Ḫbzn and Ḏrft possessed, constructed 3 and completed his grave Ṣnʿn, all its hall 4 and its walls and its construction 5 in order to bury in it the free men and women 6 of his family Ġyln. |
| Avanzini 2004 a: 519 | Avanzini, 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 type | Rock inscription |
| Measures | h. 33, w. 41 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Bayt al-Aḥraq |
| Ancient site | Grw |
| Geographical area | Radmān |
| Country | Yemen |
| Found | In situ |
| Archaeological context | Funerary context: Tomb Ṣnʿn |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| ʿAbdallāh 1979 a: 51-53, pl. 2 | ʿAbdallāh, Yūsuf M. 1979. Mudawwana al-nuqūš al-yamaniyya al-qadīma. Dirāsāt Yamaniyya, 2: 47-75. |
| Robin 1991-1993 f: 99 | Robin, Christian J. 1991-1993 [1992]. Les langues de la péninsule arabique. Pages 89-111 in Christian J. Robin (ed.). L'Arabie antique de Karibʾîl à Mahomet. Nouvelles données sur l'histoire des Arabes grâces aux inscriptions. (Revue du Monde Musulman et de la Mediterranée, 61). Aix-en-Provence: Édisud. |
| Stein 2012: 49 | Stein, Peter 2012. Aspekte von Sprachbewusstsein im antiken Südarabien. Pages 29-59 in Johannes Thon, Giuseppe Veltri and Ernst-Joachim Waschke (eds). Sprachbewusstsein und Sprachkonzepte im Alten Orient, Alten Testament und rabbinischen Judentum. (Orientwissenschaftliche Hefte, 30). Halle: Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Regionalstudien der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. |