CSAI

Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions


Bernand, Drewes and Schneider 1991: ii, pl. 32
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Ethiopian Early Sabaic
AlphabetAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Writing techniqueIncision
Chronology
PeriodA
Textual typologyDedicatory text - fragmentary

TEXT


   1  Yṭḫd bn Gḥdby hqn←y Hwbs¹|←[M]ʿnnn

Apparatus
1Mʿnnn seems to be an isolated name (Schneider 1976: 81 and Bernand et alii 1991: 114).

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  Yṭḫd, son of Gḥdby, dedicated to Hwbs¹. Mʿnnn.
1Mʿnnn seems an isolated name, not the name of a dedicated person to Hwbs¹.

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeArtefact » Offering table » With bull head as gutter
MaterialStone
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Provenance
Modern siteYeha
Ancient siteYḥʾ
Geographical areaTigray
CountryEthiopia
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Schneider 1976: 81-82, figs 1-3Schneider, Roger 1976. Documents épigraphiques de l'Éthiopie - V. Annales d'Ethiopie, 10: 81-93.
Bernand, Drewes and Schneider 1991: 114, pls 31-32Bernand, Etienne, Drewes, Abraham J. and Schneider, Roger 1991. Recueil des inscriptions de l'Éthiopie des périodes pré-axoumite et axoumite. Introduction de Francis Anfray. Paris: de Boccard. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres]