Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Dedicatory text - fragmentary |
2-3 | Rijziger 2018: 149-150 integrates: bʿl<t> bt ʾ-mty. ʾmty as an epithet of tye two mentioned women is probable, but it is difficult to understand what is: bʿl/bʿlt bt. P.Stein in a personal communication to S.Rijziger suggests that bʿl b was a scribal mistake. |
8 | At the beginning: bt-hmw is a possible integration (Rijziger). |
English | |
1 Ḥmdm she of S²qrn and 2 her daughter Rbbt [...] 3 (the two maidservants) of Mʿdḥlk she of 4 [..]rm dedicated to her god [... ...] 5 Master of their house the statue in 6 [...] of their house ʾr[...] 7 [when] she sujected (herself) to her god 8 [... ...] may He grant her her well-being [... ...] |
Support type | Artefact » Base » Of statue with dedicatory inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 60, w. 30 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Ḥāz |
Ancient site | Ḥzym |
Geographical area | Hamdān |
Country | Yemen |
Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
Archaeological context | Religious context |
Link to site record |
Mordtmann and Mittwoch 1931: 119-122 (facsimile) | Mordtmann, Johannes H. and Mittwoch, Eugen 1931. Sabäische Inschriften. Rathjens-v. Wissmannsche Südarabischen-Reise. 1. Hamburg: Friederichsen, De Gruyter. |
Rijziger 2018: 148-150, fig. 30 | Rijziger, Sarah 2018. Sabaean inscriptions from Ḥāz, Yemen. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 29/2: 135-171. 2019/10/02; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/aae.12111. |