CSAI

Corpus of Sabaic Inscriptions (work in progress)

DASI

Istituto per l'Oriente


By kind permission of Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale, Rome

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic
AlphabetAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Writing techniqueRelief

GENERAL NOTES

The name Ygʿr is attested in the Middle Sabaic inscriptions from the highlands.

TEXT


   1  [... ...]m Ygʿr bn S¹[... ...]

Apparatus
1Ygʿr is probably a proper name in second or third position within a compound name.

OBJECT INFORMATION

DepositRoma, Istituto per l'Oriente "C.A. Nallino"
Support typeStone inscription
MaterialStone
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Provenance
Modern siteShibām al-Ghirās / Shibām Sukhaym
Ancient siteS²bmm
Geographical areaBanī Ḥushaysh
CountryYemen
NotesThe provenance of the stone is possibly the Shibām al-Ghirās area. In fact, in 1928 an Italian official in Yemen sent to the Italian authorities the copy of an inscription seen in a village of the region of Shibām al-Ghirās, which perfectly corresponds to the text of the Istituto per l'Oriente (Nalesini 2012: 72-73).
The inscription was brought to Italy later.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Garbini 1980: 159-161Garbini, Giovanni 1980. Antichità sud arabiche presso l'Istituto per l'Oriente - Roma. Oriente Moderno, 60: 159-161. [Studi in onore di Paolo Minganti]
Nalesini 2012: 73, fig. 4Nalesini, Oscar 2012. Il primo progetto italiano di spedizione archeologica nello Yemen. Pages 69-73 in Sabina Antonini, Paola D'Amore and Michael Jung (eds). Il trono della regina di Saba. Cultura e diplomazia fra Italia e Yemen. La Collezione Sudarabica del Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale. Rome: Artemide.