Gr 28 Gar AY 8
Grjaznevič 1978: fig. 45
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Southern Middle Sabaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Legal text - fragmentary (conjectural) |
TEXT
1 [... ...]
2 [... ...] bytm bytm w[... ...]
3 [... ...](wm) ẓyt-hw w-kwn ḏn wftn (b)-m[... ...]
4 [... ...](s¹)ʾl Tʾlb bʿl Brrn w-(b)n k[... ...]
5 [... ...](t)m s²ʿbn ḏ-t(s¹)ʾlw b-ʿm [... ...]
6 [... ...]
| 2 | At the beginning: Garbini reads [... ...]tm klb[...]bytm, Lundin [... ...]l-s¹ʿd [.....] bytm. At the end: Garbini reads w(f)[... ...]. |
| 3 | At the beginning: Garbini reads w-mẓyt-hw, but the divisor after the letter m is clearly visible on Grjaznevič's photo. |
| 4 | At the end: Garbini reads ʾ instead of k. |
| 5 | At the end: Garbini reads also tʾ[... ...]. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 [... ...] 2 [... ...] house by house [... ...] 3 [... ...] and his (?), this wtf-document was in [... ...] 4 [... ...] Tʾlb Lord of Brrn asked [... ...] 5 [... ...] the tribe, which they sought from [Him ... ...] |
| 2 | bytm bytm: "house by house" or "each house separately" (Beeston 1972). |
| Beeston 1972 b: 396 | Beeston, Alfred F.L. 1972. Sabaean Marginalia. Annali dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli, 32/3: 394-400. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Stone inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Ẓafār |
| Ancient site | Ẓfr |
| Geographical area | Ẓafār |
| Country | Yemen |
| Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Garbini 1970 b: 544, pl. XXXV/e | Garbini, Giovanni 1970. Antichità yemenite II. Annali dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli, 30/4: 537-548. |
| Grjaznevič 1978: 37-38, fig. 45 | Grjaznevič, Petr A. 1978. Materiali ekspedicii P.A. Grjaznevičia 1966-1967 gg. Južnaja Aravija. Pamjiatniki Drevnej Istorii i Kultury. 1. Moscow: Glavnaja redakzija vostočnoj literatury. |