CSAI

Corpus of Sabaic Inscriptions (work in progress)


INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Early Sabaic
AlphabetAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Script cursusBoustrophedon
Writing techniqueIncision
Measure of letters4.7
Chronology
PeriodA
Textual typologyConstruction text

TEXT


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   1  bs¹l Ḏbḥm bn ʿb—
   2  dm w-mn l-yhʾyw
   3  ʿbdm ʾḥd ʾs¹—
   4  s¹ʾl kl ms¹knhn

Apparatus
1(s¹ʾl) ḏbḥm bn ʿk- (Tschinkowitz-Nagler).
2[.]dm w-mn l-yhʾyw (Tschinkowitz-Nagler).
3ny ʿbdm ʾhd ʾ- (Tschinkowitz-Nagler).
4[.]ʾl[.]kl ms¹knhn (Tschinkowitz-Nagler).

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeUnknown
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Provenance
Modern siteal-Bayḍāʾ
Ancient siteNs²qm
Geographical areaJawf - Wādī al-Buhayra
CountryYemen
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Tschinkowitz-Nagler 1975: 27-28, 32Tschinkowitz-Nagler, Helga 1975. Kleine Fragmente. (II. Teil). Sammlung Eduard Glaser. 11. (Sitzungsberichte der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 301/3). Vienna: Verlag der Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.