Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Measure of letters | 5-5.5 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Dedicatory text - fragmentary (conjectural) |
1 | [... ... l-s¹ʿ](d)[-hmw ... ...] (Jamme). |
3 | ʾ(dm)[... ...] (Jamme). |
4 | [... ... ʾ](ʾḏ)nm (Jamme). |
5 | (s¹)ʿ(d)-[hmw ... ...] (Ryckmans and Jamme). |
6 | [... ... wfy-h](m)w w-wfy byt-hmw [Rymn ... ...] (Jamme). The same integration at the beginning of the line by Ryckmans. |
7 | [... ... s²ym-h](mw Tʾlb)[ w-... ...] (Jamme). |
English | |
1 [... ...] 2 [... ...] and may He preserve them [... ...] 3 [... ...] Tʾlb any foe and enemy of [... ...] 4 [... ...] faculties and material resources and may He grant [... ...] 5 [... ... the favours] they will seek from Him and may He grant [... ...] 6 [... ...] and the safety of their house [... ...] 7 [... ...] Tʾlb [... ...] |
Deposit | Roma, Museo Nazionale d’Arte Orientale “Giuseppe Tucci”, inv. 13011/16023 |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 37, w. 39, th. 8-8.5 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Unknown |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | Unknown |
Country | Unknown |
Link to site record |
Ansaldi 1933: fig. 85 | Ansaldi, Cesare 1933. Il Yemen nella storia e nella leggenda. (Collezione di opere e di monografie a cura del Ministero delle colonie, 17). Rome: Sindacato italiano arti grafiche. |
Ryckmans, Gonzague 1937: 261 | Ryckmans, Gonzague 1937. Inscriptions sud-arabes. Quatrième série. Le Muséon, 50: 239-268. |
Jamme 1956 a: 36-39, pl. III/420 | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1956. Les antiquités sud-arabes du Museo Nazionale Romano. Monumenti antichi, 43: 1-120. |
Mazzini 2012: 236, cat. 51 | Mazzini, Giovanni 2012. Catalogo. Iscrizioni. Pages 232-237 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. |