Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Southern Middle Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Measure of letters | 4 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Construction text |
7 | The epithet of the god ʿṯtr: bʿl kwr Ks¹dm is attested for the first time. Robin interpretes it as "Lord of the hill Ks¹dm". |
English | |
1 ʿbnʿm and Wʿh[b ... ...] 2 Mrṯdm and ʾlʿ[... ...] 3 arranged, laid out fields in terraces [...] built a well, extended 4 and completed their house Yr[.], their plantation Ḥrn, its 5 well Nḥr in the surroundings of their city Mrbm, with the help of ʿṯt- 6 r S²rqn and of ʿm dhu Rymtm, Lord of the rock Nwʿn, and of 7 ʿṯtr, Lord of the hill (?) Ks¹dm and with the help 8 of their solar divinities and with the help of their lords 9 Whbʾl Yḥz, of the family Mʿhr and of Ḫwln and 10 according to the orders of ʾ<n>by. |
Support type | Rock inscription |
Measures | h. 58, w. 67 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | al-Bayḍāʾ |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | al-Bayḍāʾ |
Country | Yemen |
Link to site record |
Robin and Bāfaqīh 1981: 67-73, pl. I | Robin, Christian J. and Bāfaqīh, Muḥammad ʿA. 1981. Deux nouvelles inscriptions de Radmān datant du IIe siècle de l'ère chrétienne. Raydān, 4: 67- 87. |