Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Late Sabaic | ||||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||||
Writing technique | Incision | ||||
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Textual typology | Construction text |
1-3 | The integration of the names is based on the monograms (S²rḥbʾl Ykml) and on the comparison with RES 4069. |
English | |
1 S²rḥbʾl Ykml, S²rḥʾl Yqbl, Mrṯdʾln 2 ʾḥṣn, S¹myfʿ ʾs²wʿ and their sons Lḥyʿt Yrḫm, S¹myfʿ 3 ʾs²wʿ, descendants of Lḥyʿt Yrḫm, of the clan of Yzʾn, Gdnm and Y- 4 ṣbr, ʾqwl of their tribes Rṯḥm, Ḍyftn, S¹ʾkln, Rk- 5 bn and kabwr of the tribe of S³ʿybn created terraced fields and completed their sanctuaries (their dominions) 6 [... ...] and they built his temple S²bʿn, who was in the wādī Ġln 7 [... ...] with the assistance and the help of Rḥmnn, the Master of the heaven and of the earth. In the 8 month of Qyẓn of the year five hundred ninety-six. |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 50, w. 92 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Ḥizmat Abū Thawr |
Ancient site | Mnhytm l-yṯʿʾmr / Mnhtm / Mnytm |
Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī al-Buhayra |
Country | Yemen |
Link to site record |
Robin 1986: 181-197, pl. I | Robin, Christian J. 1986. Du nouveau sur les Yazʾanides. Appendice. Les inscriptions Mafray-Abu Ṯawr 1-3. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 16: 181-197. |
Gajda 1997: 61-64 | Gajda, Iwona 1997. Ḥimyar gagné par le monothéisme (IVe-VIe siècle de l'ère chrétienne). Ambitions et ruine d'un royaume de l'Arabie méridionale antique. (Université d'Aix-en-Provence). |
Müller, Walter W. 2010: 85 | Müller, Walter W. 2010. Sabäische Inschriften nach Ären datiert. Bibliographie, Texte und Glossar. (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission, 53). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. |