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SR-Thulā 4
Rijziger 2017 a: 72, fig. 7
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
| Script | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Text direction | Right-to-left | ||
| Text appearance | Raised | ||
| Execution technique | Incision | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Construction text |
TEXT
1 (F) [rʿ]m Ynhb m[lk S¹bʾ ... ...]
2 [... ...] (bnyw) [... ...]
| 1 | The reading of Frʿm is hypothetical. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Stone piece |
| Material | Stone |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Thulā |
| Ancient site | Ṯly |
| Geographical area | Shibām-Kawkabān |
| Country | Yemen |
| Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
| Notes | The stone inscription is reemployed in a wall in a alleyway of Thula. |
| Link to site record |
CULTURAL NOTES
Although Ynhb was attested in various compound personal names, the editor supposes that this epigraph mentions the king Fāriʿum Yanhub, probably in co-regency with his sons ʾIlsharaḥ Yaḥḍub and Yaʾzil Bayyin as documented in Ja 566 (cf. Rijziger 2017 a: 71).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Rijziger 2017 a: 71-72, fig. 7 | Rijziger, Sarah 2017. The first epigraphic evidence of the existence of Thulā in antiquity. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 28: 67-74. 2019/10/19; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/16000471/2017/28/1. |