CSAI

Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions

DASI

Nihm/Barrān 2 Gr 345; MAFRAY-al-Ḥawl 2; Nihm 11


Frantsouzoff 2016: Fasc. B, 32, pl. 21

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic
AlphabetAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Writing techniqueIncision
Measure of letters3.1/3.5
Chronology
PeriodC. Conjectural
Textual typologyConstruction text (conjectural)

GENERAL NOTES

The text could be a legal inscription.

TEXT


   1  [... ...](h) mn ʾl-s²mt l-ys²m ʾnf-h

TRANSLATIONS

Frantsouzoff 2016
French

   1  ... Si elle, qui qu'elle soit, n'érigeait pas, qu'il érige sa façade (?).
1Frantsouzoff prefers the meaning "to build, to erect" for the verb derived from the root S²YM, rather than "to decorate", proposed by Bauer and Lundin.
Frantsouzoff 2016: 96-97Frantsouzoff, Serguei A. 2016. Nihm. Fasc. A: Les documents. Fasc. B: Les planches. With contribution by Christian J. Robin. Inventaire des inscriptions sudarabiques. 8. Paris: De Boccard. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres; Collège de France, Laboratoire des Études Sémitiques anciennes; Académie des sciences de Russie Institut des manuscrits orientaux]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeStone inscription
MaterialStone
Measuresh. 19-20, w. 55-56, th. 13
Link to object record

ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin
Modern siteal-ʿĀdī
Ancient siteBrn
Geographical areaNihm
CountryYemen
Link to site record
Provenance
Modern siteal-Ḥawl
Ancient siteUnknown
Geographical areaBarrān
CountryYemen
FoundReemployed. In modern times
NotesThis inscription was reemployed in a wall of a shepherd's hut in the area of the village al-Ḥawl, not faraway from al-ʿĀdī.
Link to site record

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bauer and Lundin 1998: 129-130, fig. 271Bauer, Gleb M. and Lundin (=Loundine), Avraam G. 1998. Pamjatniki Drevnej Istorii i Kultury. Južnaja Aravija. Part 2: Epigraficheskie pamjiatniki drevnego Jemena. 2. St.-Petersburg: Zentr "Peterburgskoe vostokovedenie". [Akademia nauk, Institut Vostokovedenija, Sankt-Peterburgskiy filial]
Frantsouzoff 2016: 96-97, pl. 21Frantsouzoff, Serguei A. 2016. Nihm. Fasc. A: Les documents. Fasc. B: Les planches. With contribution by Christian J. Robin. Inventaire des inscriptions sudarabiques. 8. Paris: De Boccard. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres; Collège de France, Laboratoire des Études Sémitiques anciennes; Académie des sciences de Russie Institut des manuscrits orientaux]