Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Southern Middle Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Measure of letters | 14 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Construction text |
English | |
1 Lḥyʿṯt Yrḫm ibn Maʿāhir and ḏ-Ḫwln, 2 qyl of Rdmn and Ḫwln, son of Whbʾl 3 Yḥz, dug up, worked, completed and excavated 4 his field Ts¹dd, and all its conduts, 5 its canals, its channels (or: dam?) and its walls 6 in front of his city Wʿln Tʾzl. |
Support type | Rock inscription |
Measures | h. 125, w. 49 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | al-Miʿsāl |
Ancient site | Wʿln |
Geographical area | al-Bayḍāʾ |
Country | Yemen |
Found | In situ |
Link to site record |
ʿAbdallāh 1979 a: 55-57, 69 (upper photo) | ʿAbdallāh, Yūsuf M. 1979. Mudawwana al-nuqūš al-yamaniyya al-qadīma. Dirāsāt Yamaniyya, 2: 47-75. |