CSAI

Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions


Garbini 1988: pl. 46
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Early Sabaic
AlphabetAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Script cursusBoustrophedon
Writing techniqueIncision
Chronology
PeriodA
Textual typologyCommemorative text

TEXT


   1  ʾlt s³ʾk w-ṣyd ʿms²fq
   2  bn Brhmw bn Gdnm Dnm
   3  w-ʾrydy b-ʿm Krbʾl
   4  Wtr /1000/

Apparatus
1Garbini points out the exception of the use of the verb "ṣyd" by a person who is not a mukarrib. See also Y.5.AQ/24; the initial ʾ is dextrograde.

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  These has captured and hunted ʿms²fq,
   2  son of Brhmw, ibn Gdnm, at Dnm
   3  and ʾrydy with Krbʾl:
   4  1000.

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeRock inscription
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin and provenance
Modern siteShiʿb al-ʿAql
Ancient siteDnm (?) / ʾrydy (?)
Geographical areaWādī Yalā
CountryYemen
FoundIn situ
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Garbini 1988: 32, pl. 46Garbini, Giovanni 1988. The inscriptions of Si'b al-'Aql, Al-Gafnah and Yala/Ad-Durayb. Pages 21-40 in Alessandro de Maigret (ed.). The Sabaean archaeological complex in the Wādī Yalā (Eastern Hawlān at-Tiyāl, Yemen Arab Republic). A preliminary report. (Istituto italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente. Centro studi e scavi archeologici. Reports and memoirs, 21). Rome: IsMEO.
Jamme 1989: 77-78Jamme, Albert W.F. 1989. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe XVII. Washington. 2019/07/23; https://cuislandora.wrlc.org/islandora/object/cuislandora%3A202034#page/1/mode/1up. [Privately printed]