CSAI

Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions


Fakhry 1952: iii, pl. XXXVIII
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic
AlphabetAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Writing techniqueIncision
Measure of letters24
Chronology
PeriodC. Conjectural
Textual typologyConstruction text (conjectural)

TEXT


   1  Wddʾl w-ʾḫy-hw bny ḏ-S¹ḥr s²ʾmw w-[qnyw by]tn Ygr w-kl ṣrḥt-hw w-gblt-hw [... ...]

Apparatus
1The integration [w-qny] is not accepted by A. Jamme (Jamme 1976: 8).

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  Wddʾl and his brothers, of the family S¹ḥr, bought and [acquired] the house Ygr and all its upper rooms and his cultivated land [... ...].

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeStone inscription
MaterialStone
Measuresh. 30, w. 110 (Fa 112); h. 24, w. 79, th. 28 (Fa 113); w. 129 (Fa 114)
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Provenance
Modern siteMaʾrib
Ancient siteMryb / Mrb
Geographical areaMaʾrib
CountryYemen
FoundReemployed. In modern times
Archaeological contextUrban context: Private house Ygr
NotesFound inside a new building of the government.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Fakhry 1952: i, 117, n. 161-164, fig 107 (facsimile); iii pl. XXXVIIIFakhry, Ahmed 1952. An archaeological Journey to Yemen (March-May 1947). (3 vols), Cairo: Government Press.
Ryckmans, Gonzague 1952: ii, 66Ryckmans, Gonzague 1952. Epigraphical texts. Ahmed Fakhry, An archaeological Journey to Yemen (March-May 1947). ii. Cairo: Government Press.
Jamme 1976: 7-9Jamme, Albert W.F. 1976. Carnegie Museum 1974-75 Yemen Expedition. (Special Publication, 2). Pittsburgh: Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
Schmidt 1987: 138-139, pls 15/c, 17/aSchmidt, Jürgen 1987. Antiken aus dem Stadtgebiet von Mārib. Archäologische Berichte aus dem Yemen, 4: 131-142.