CSAI

Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions


Jamme 1965 a: 53, pl. X 23
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Ḥaḍramitic
AlphabetAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Writing techniqueIncision
Measure of letters6.3
Chronology
PeriodB2

TEXT


   1  Ys³l((ys³l)) [... ...]

Apparatus
The text could be fragmentary at the beginning too.
Frantsouzoff 2007: 167: ys³l could be a verbal form from wṯl (see Raybūn-Kafas/Naʿmān 118).

OBJECT INFORMATION

DepositCambridge, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambr. 59.I.A
Support typeStone inscription
MaterialStone
Measuresw. 12
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin
Modern siteUnknown
Ancient siteUnknown
Geographical areawādī Ḥaḍramawt
CountryYemen
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Jamme 1965 a: 53, pl. X/23Jamme, Albert W.F. 1965. The South Arabian collection of the University Museum (Cambridge, England). Documentation sud-arabe, IV. Rivista degli Studi Orientali, 40: 43-55.
Frantsouzoff 2007Frantsouzoff, Serguei A. 2007. Raybūn. Kafas Naʿmān, temple de la déesse dhāt-Ḥimyam. Fasc. A: Les documents. Fasc. B: Les planches. Avec une contribution archéologique de Alexander V. Sedov and Jurij A. Vinogradov. Inventaire des inscriptions sudarabiques. 6. Paris: de Boccard / Rome: Herder. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres; Istituto italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente]