CSAI

Corpus of Sabaic Inscriptions (work in progress)


Bāsalāmah 1990: 161, fig. 57
By kind permission of M. Bāsalāmah

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic
AlphabetAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Writing techniqueIncision
Textual typologyDedicatory text (conjectural)

TEXT


   1  [... ...]ms¹ ʾ[... ...]
   2  [... ...]ʾḏn[.] (w)[... ... ... ...]r [... ...]—
   3  ṭrn nʿmtm w-[... ...] ʿdy s¹[... ...]
   4  [.]tn [..] ḏ-kwn mr(ḍ)m ywm [... ...]
   5  [... ...]

Apparatus
1[... ...]ms¹(ʾ)[... ...] or [... ...]ms¹(ḫ)[... ...].

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeStone inscription
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Provenance
Modern siteShibām al-Ghirās / Shibām Sukhaym
Ancient siteS²bmm
Geographical areaBanī Ḥushaysh
CountryYemen
FoundReemployed. In modern times
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bāsalāmah 1990: 159, 162, 161 (fig. 57)Bāsalāmah, Mohammed ʿAbdallah 1990. Šibām al-Ġirās. Sanaʿāʾ: Muʾassasa al-ʿAfīf al-Ṯaqāfiyya.