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RES 3913 Ry 7
By kind permission of British Museum
DEPOSIT INFORMATION
| Deposit | London, The British Museum, BM 103021 (=1909,0612.2) |
SUPPORT INFORMATION
| Support type | Stone piece |
| Material | Stone |
| Dimensions | h. 24.5, w. 52.5, th. 8 |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Unknown |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | Unknown |
| Country | Unknown |
| Archaeological context | Agricultural irrigation context: Canal |
| Notes | The provenance of the inscription is not known. The title kbr Fys²n is attested to in the inscription Arnold-Nebes, 2 (Nebes 1998) from al-Bayḍāʾ. This does not provide sufficient grounds to suppose that our inscription comes from al-Bayḍāʾ, nor can we exclude the possibility that Fys²n actually refers to a homonymous tribe from the high plateau that formed part of the confederation of Bakīl. However, the title of kbr is frequently found in texts from Jawf and Ḥaḍramawt dating to the first millenium BC, and only rarely in the documentation from other regions. The presence of the substantive klwt, which has been found elsewhere only in an inscription from the region of Hamdān (MAFY Khamir, 5-3, unpublished inscription cited in SD), would suggest that the provenance of our text was the high plateau. As we will see in other inscriptions, the lexicon associated with agriculture and water projects in the high-plateau is different from that of the central zone of the Sabaean kingdom. An observation by Pirenne as well (1956: 204, n. 2) regarding the palaeography of this inscription suggests a provenance on the high plateau. Her view was that the inscriptions contained a ductus (for the m in particular), which is reminiscent of the palaeography of certain QAT inscriptions. |
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EPIGRAPHS
| Title | RES 3913 |
| Concordance | Ry 7 |
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic |
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