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It is not possible to date the inscription neither from the text nor from palaeography (no photo is available).
1 ʾls²rḥ bn Nbryn s¹qny | 2 ʾnby S²ymn ṣlmnyhn l-w—3 fy bn-s¹ww Hwfʾl w-Bḥrm
English 1 ʾls²rḥ he of Nbryn dedicated
2 to ʾnby S²ymn these two statues for the the sa-
3 fety of his two sons Hwfʾl and Bḥrm.
Support type Stone inscription Material Alabaster Measures h. 8.8, w. 21.4, th. 6.2 (left) Link to object record
Origin Modern site Hajar Ibn Ḥumayd Ancient site ḏ-Ġylm / ḏt-Ġylm Geographical area Wādī Bayḥān Country Yemen Archaeological context Religious context: Temple of ʾnby S²ymn Link to site record
Jamme 1969 a : 343Jamme, Albert W.F. 1969. Inscriptions from Hajar bin Ḥumeid. Pages 331-354 in Gus W. Van Beek. Hajar bin Ḥumeid. Investigations at a Pre-Islamic Site in South Arabia . (Publications of the American Foundation for the Study of Man, 5). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press.