DASI: Digital Archive for the Study of pre-islamic arabian Inscriptions: Epigraph details

By kind permission of GOAM

By kind permission of GOAM

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

Language	Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Southern Middle Sabaic
Alphabet	Ancient South Arabian
Script typology	Monumental writing
Writing technique	Incision
Measure of letters	about 9

TEXT

Apparatus

Perhaps Yfrʿ is the defective writing of Yhfrʿ, a clan of the tribe of Mhqrʾm who lived in the modern city of Maṣnaʿat Māriya (Robin 2006: 93-135).

OBJECT INFORMATION

Deposit	Baynūn, Museum, BynM 16
Support type	Artefact » Offering table » Undefined
Material	Stone
Measures	h. 9, w. 45, th. 26
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin and provenance

Modern site	Baynūn
Ancient site	Bynn
Geographical area	Khawlân
Country	Yemen
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Robin 2006	Robin, Christian J. 2006. Muhaqraʾum (arabe Muhaqrā). Une commune Ḥimyarite méconnue. Pages 93-135 in Christian J. Robin and Muḥammad A.R. Jāzim (eds). Le pèlerin des forteresses du savoir. Hommage au qādī Ismāʿīl b. Alī al-Akwaʿ à l'occasion de son 85e anniversaire. Ṣanʿāʾ: Centre français d'archéologie et de sciences sociales de Ṣanʿāʾ.