Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Measure of letters | 11.5 | ||
Chronology |
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English | |
1 S²rḥm ʾymn, of the family Btʿ and Hmdm, 2 hunted on the mountains of Ṣwln and he killed, until he wrote 3 this inscription, three thousand ibexes 4 and again three hundred and again seven hundred. |
Support type | Rock inscription |
Material | Stone |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Ẓafār dhī-Bīn |
Ancient site | Ẓfr |
Geographical area | dhī-Bīn |
Country | Yemen |
Found | In situ |
Link to site record |
Robin 1979 a: 183 | Robin, Christian J. 1979. Mission archéologique et épigraphique française au Yémen du Nord en automne 1978. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres: 174-202. |
Bauer and Lundin 1998: 38-39, photos 145 a, b, v, g | Bauer, Gleb M. and Lundin (=Loundine), Avraam G. 1998. Pamjatniki Drevnej Istorii i Kultury. Južnaja Aravija. Part 2: Epigraficheskie pamjiatniki drevnego Jemena. 2. St.-Petersburg: Zentr "Peterburgskoe vostokovedenie". [Akademia nauk, Institut Vostokovedenija, Sankt-Peterburgskiy filial] |