CSAI

Corpus of Sabaic Inscriptions (work in progress)


Mordtmann and Mittwoch 1931: 85-86, 90, figs 46, 49, 55; Garbini 1970 b: pl. XXVII/a
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic
AlphabetAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Writing techniqueRelief
Chronology
PeriodC. Conjectural
Textual typologyConstruction text - fragmentary

GENERAL NOTES

Fragments joined together by Garbini. S. Rijziger 2018: 157 has doubts about joining CIH 214 and RES 4001, both regarding content and letter forms, mainly the letter ḍ and r.

TEXT


   1  Ḏrḥʾl Yḫḍl w-Brqm w-(S¹)[... ...] ± [... ...]w bnw S¹qrn ʾd±m bnw B[tʿ ... ...] ± [... ...] Yḥḍr b-rdʾ ʾmr(ʾ)-(hm)[w ... ...]

Apparatus
1[w-bny-hm]w bnw S¹qrn (CIH 156, Garbini).

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeStone inscription
MaterialStone
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Provenance
Modern siteḤāz
Ancient siteḤzym
Geographical areaHamdān
CountryYemen
FoundReemployed. In modern times
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Mordtmann and Mittwoch 1931: 85-87, 90 (facsimiles)Mordtmann, Johannes H. and Mittwoch, Eugen 1931. Sabäische Inschriften. Rathjens-v. Wissmannsche Südarabischen-Reise. 1. Hamburg: Friederichsen, De Gruyter.
Garbini 1970 b: 538, pls. 27/a, 28/a-bGarbini, Giovanni 1970. Antichità yemenite II. Annali dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli, 30/4: 537-548.
Garbini 1974 b: 292-293Garbini, Giovanni 1974. Note di epigrafia sabea - II. Annali dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli, 34/2: 291-299.
Grjaznevič 1978: 31, figs 34, 35Grjaznevič, Petr A. 1978. Materiali ekspedicii P.A. Grjaznevičia 1966-1967 gg. Južnaja Aravija. Pamjiatniki Drevnej Istorii i Kultury. 1. Moscow: Glavnaja redakzija vostočnoj literatury.
Rijziger 2018: 157, fig. 46Rijziger, Sarah 2018. Sabaean inscriptions from Ḥāz, Yemen. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 29/2: 135-171. 2019/10/02; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/aae.12111.