Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Late Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Relief | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Construction text - fragmentary |
On the basis of palaeography, Gajda maintains the inscription could be a fragment of Ba 4. |
1 | possible reading after bnw: S²rḥʾl |
2 | Robin 1991-1993 d: 155, suggests to see in ḏ-mrḥbm "un fonctionnaire ou un serviteur local". The other option is to think of a clan-name. |
3 | Tġmʾ is attested as name of group in ʿAbadān 1/11. It is not sure whether the other names indicate tribes or clans. |
English | |
1 [... ...] and Nʿmgd, banū [... ... ] 2 [... ...] those of Mrḥbm, ḏ-S²ms¹n, Bṯʾn 3 [... ...] and Tġmʾ, S¹hb, Ms²ḥtn and Rkb of the family 4 [... ...] they built their fortress ḏ-ʾs¹lmn, at the entrance of the valley 5 [... ... ] who control the valley ʾs¹lmn. |
5 | "who both hold the local magistracy over the valley of ʾs¹lmn" (Beeston). |
Support type | Inscription on architectural structure » Block |
Material | Stone |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Unknown |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | wādī Sanāʾ |
Country | Yemen |
Archaeological context | Urban context: Fortress ḏ-ʾs¹lmn |
Link to site record |
Beeston 1962 a: 41-42, pl. X | Beeston, Alfred F.L. 1962. Epigraphic and Archaeological Gleanings from South Arabia. Oriens Antiquus, 1: 41-52. |
Gajda 1997: 169-170 | Gajda, Iwona 1997. Ḥimyar gagné par le monothéisme (IVe-VIe siècle de l'ère chrétienne). Ambitions et ruine d'un royaume de l'Arabie méridionale antique. (Université d'Aix-en-Provence). |
Robin 1991-1993 d | Robin, Christian J. 1991-1993 [1992]. Du paganisme au monothéisme. Pages 139-155 in Christian J. Robin (ed.). L'Arabie antique de Karibʾîl à Mahomet. Nouvelles données sur l'histoire des Arabes grâces aux inscriptions. (Revue du Monde Musulman et de la Mediterranée, 61). Aix-en-Provence: Édisud. |