CSAI

Corpus of Undefined Ancient South Arabian Language inscriptions (work in progress)

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Corpus of Undefined Ancient South Arabian Language inscriptions (work in progress)

This corpus collects all the South Arabian texts which cannot be assigned to any specific language, because they convey no information about their linguistic provenance, nor on their geographic or chronological setting. The majority of them are fragmentary or simply onomastic texts.

For the moment they are about 300, comprising mainly texts of the CIH collection, and inscriptions preserved in the Yemeni Museums plus some texts of the British Museum.
This is the corpus home page. You can begin the consultation of the whole corpus by using the indexes and tools menu on the left or you can consult only one of its sub-corpora, when present, by choosing from the list below.