Language | Ancient South Arabian » Qatabanic » Central Qatabanic |
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian |
Script typology | Monumental writing |
Writing technique | Incision |
Measure of letters | 5 |
The text is inscribed on the same stone as Ja 343 B, to which it is almost identical. The palaeography of the two inscriptions, however, is slightly different. We probably have an example of the re-writing of a text after the architectural restructuring of the tomb. Chronologically both the texts are of period B. |
English | |
1 ʾs²hrm, son of Lḥyn, and S²krm, son of ʿmʿly, and S²ʿbm, son of Nbṭʿly, 2 of the family Ġrbm made, gained legal possession, and built their grave Nfs¹m and its hall and its inner rooms 3 in its entirety, according to the orders of ʾnby, and let there be no violation thereof; and ʾs²hrm possessed three fifths of this grave 4 and of its hall and of its inner rooms and S²krm and S²ʿbm possessed two fifths. |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 24.5, w. 84 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Ḥayd Ibn ʿAqīl |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | Wādī Bayḥān |
Country | Yemen |
Archaeological context | Funerary context: Tomb Nfs¹m |
Link to site record |
Jamme 1952 a: 185-187 | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1952. Pièces épigraphiques de Ḥeid bin ʿAqil, la nécropole de Timnaʿ (Hagr Koḥlân). (Bibliothèque du Muséon, 30). Louvain: Publications universitaires. |
Cleveland 1965: 164, pl. 104 | Cleveland, Ray L. 1965. An Ancient South Arabian Necropolis. Objects from the Second Campaign (1951) in Timnaʿ Cemetery. (Publications of the American Foundation for the Study of Man, 4). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press. |