Language | Ancient South Arabian » Ḥaḍramitic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Chronology |
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"Text B is added in small characters, and is not part of the main decoration of the bowl. It is unclear whether this is an addition by later owners, or by craftsmen (as a signature)" (Kitchen). There is no photo available for this object, therefore it is not known where this second inscription was written. |
The word ḥw is interpreted as a common noun (Kitchen and Bron). |
English | |
1 ʾbkrb Ḥw (?) 2 made and shaped (the object). |
1-2 | Saʿūl and Nakab, Abkarib, servants/clansmen" (Kitchen); "A exécuté et façonné au repoussé Abūkarib ..." (Bron); "ḥw reste énigmatique" (Bron). Bron compares the words s¹ʿl and nkb to Geʿez saʿala "former, dessiner" and nakaba "courber, fléchir" respectively. |
Kitchen 1998: 155 | Kitchen, Kenneth A. 1998. Three unusual Sabaean inscriptions in bronze. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 28: 149-157. |
Bron 1999 c: 202-203 | Bron, François 1999. Une inscription ḥaḍramawtique sur un bol en argent, LPC 6. Semitica, 49: 202-203. |
Support type | Artefact » Container » Bowl (ṣḥl) |
Material | Silver |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Hajar am-Dhaybiyya |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | Wādī Ḍura |
Country | Yemen |
Link to site record |
Kitchen 1998: 154-155 (facsimile) | Kitchen, Kenneth A. 1998. Three unusual Sabaean inscriptions in bronze. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 28: 149-157. |
Bron 1999 c: 202 | Bron, François 1999. Une inscription ḥaḍramawtique sur un bol en argent, LPC 6. Semitica, 49: 202-203. |
Kitchen 2009: 243-244, fig. 28/2 (facsimile) | Kitchen, Kenneth A. 2009. A glimpse of the wealth of the Shabwa nobility at the fall of the kingdom of Hadramawt. Pages 243-275 in Jean-François Breton (ed.). Fouilles de Shabwa IV. Shabwa et son contexte architectural et artistique du Ier siècle avant J.-C. au IVe siècle après J.-C.. Jean-François Breton (ed.), Fouilles de Shabwa. 4. (Bibliothèque archéologique et historique, 190). Ṣanʿāʾ: Centre français d'archéologie et de sciences sociales de Ṣanʿāʾ / Beirut: Institut français d'archéologie du Proche-Orient. |