Language | Ancient South Arabian » Qatabanic » Central Qatabanic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Construction text | ||
Royal inscription | Yes |
English | |
1 S²hr Ġyln, son of ʾbs²bm, king of Qatabān, built 2 and restored all the cutting (of stones) and the construction of the city wall curtain 3 [... ...] and by ʾnby and by ʿm ḏ-Ys¹rm. |
2 | ṣḥft "curtain" is singular in Minaic, in Qatabanic ṣḥft "document" is attested as a singular noun. |
Deposit | Berlin, Staatliche Museen, Va 5336+Va 7819 |
Support type | Inscription on architectural structure » Walls |
Material | Stone |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Unknown |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | wādī al-Jūba |
Country | Yemen |
Archaeological context | Urban context: City walls |
Link to site record |
Pirenne 1956: pl. XXXIII/a | Pirenne, Jacqueline 1956. Paléographie des inscriptions sud-arabes. Contribution à la chronologie et à l'histoire de l'Arabie du sud antique. (Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van België. Klasse der letteren, 26). Brussels: Paleis der Academiën. |
Pirenne 1966: 48 | Pirenne, Jacqueline 1966. Contribution à l'épigraphie sud-arabiques. Semitica, 16: 73-99. |
Wissmann 1968: 111-112 | Wissmann, Hermann von 1968. Zur Archäologie und antiken Geographie von Südarabien. Ḥaḍramaut, Qatabān und das ʿAden-Gebiet in der Antike. (Uitgaven van het, Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Instituut te İstanbul, 24). Istanbul: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten. |