CSAI

Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions

DASI

Nihm/al-Quṭra 18 Gr 342; Nihm 6


Frantsouzoff 2016: Fasc. B, 59, pl. 57

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic
AlphabetAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Writing techniqueRelief
Measure of letters9.0
Chronology
PeriodD. Conjectural
Textual typologyDedicatory text - fragmentary

TEXT


   1  [...] ʾḫṭr bnw ʾw—
   2  [s¹krb [... ...] b-](T)ʾlb [Ry]mm w-b-s²ms—
   3  [s¹-hmw ... ... w-rṯdw ... ...](ẓlb bn nkym)

Apparatus
1ʾḫṭr: second element of a male personal name, frequent in Sabaic.
1-2ʾw[s¹krb: integrated on the basis of Nihm/al-Quṭra 11, 2.

TRANSLATIONS

Frantsouzoff 2016
French

   1  ... Akhṭar fils de Aw-
   2  [skarib ... ... Par] Taʾlab [Riyā]mum et par [leur] "so-
   3  [leil" (divinité tutélaire) ... ... et ils ont confié à la protection de ... ...] ... de tout individu malveillant
Frantsouzoff 2016: 144-145Frantsouzoff, Serguei A. 2016. Nihm. Fasc. A: Les documents. Fasc. B: Les planches. With contribution by Christian J. Robin. Inventaire des inscriptions sudarabiques. (8 vols), Paris: De Boccard. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres; Collège de France, Laboratoire des Études Sémitiques anciennes; Académie des sciences de Russie Institut des manuscrits orientaux]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeStone inscription
MaterialStone
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Provenance
Modern siteBanū Miʿsār/Maʿsār
Ancient siteunknown
Geographical areaNihm
CountryYemen
FoundReemployed. In modern times
NotesThis stone was reemployed on the edge of a well, on the wāḍī al-Madīd, 300 m north of the village of Banū Miʿṣār (or Maʿṣār).
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Origin. Conjectural
Modern siteQuṭra
Ancient siteMṭrtm
Geographical areaNihm
CountryYemen
Archaeological contextReligious context: Temple of Tʾlb Rymm
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Frantsouzoff 2016: 144-145, pl. 57Frantsouzoff, Serguei A. 2016. Nihm. Fasc. A: Les documents. Fasc. B: Les planches. With contribution by Christian J. Robin. Inventaire des inscriptions sudarabiques. (8 vols), Paris: De Boccard. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres; Collège de France, Laboratoire des Études Sémitiques anciennes; Académie des sciences de Russie Institut des manuscrits orientaux]
Bauer and Lundin 1998: 127, fig. 268Bauer, Gleb M. and Lundin (=Loundine), Avraam G. 1998. Pamjatniki Drevnej Istorii i Kultury. Južnaja Aravija. Part 2: Epigraficheskie pamjiatniki drevnego Jemena. 2. St.-Petersburg: Zentr "Peterburgskoe vostokovedenie". [Akademia nauk, Institut Vostokovedenija, Sankt-Peterburgskiy filial]