Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Measure of letters | 3 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Legal text - fragmentary |
The text has a content similar to CIH 609. |
4 | kl ʾl]ʾltn (Höfner). |
6 | b-mrʾ-hmw (Höfner). |
9 | Höfner: w-kl grḥt ḏkwm s¹tḥgm. "The right reading of this line (confirmed in the photo) has been proposed by Stein 2010: 161-162" (G. Mazzini). |
10 | bʾl instead of bkl (Höfner). |
11 | the month name is wrongly read ḏ-Ḥḍn by Höfner. |
English | |
1 [… … ] family Ḥwlm and […] 2 their [… …] and their houses and […] 3 […] whatever he contested […] and made kn[own …] 4 [… to the go]ds and kings (?) and queens (?) […] 5 […] according to the testimony they gave and established and gar[anteed …] 6 […] the family Ḥwlm to their lords […] 7 […] ḏu-Raydān all blṭ amount and the earnin[gs …] 8 […] king; in reason of a binding document of which this [inscription] is the duplicate (?) 9 […] and any regulating document would be placed under the authority of […] 10 […] and of a debt document and in reason of everyone who wrote […] 11 […do]cument; in the month of Hbs¹, of the year of Hl[kʾmr …] 12 son of Ḥḏmt. |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 50.5, w. 27 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Shibām-Kawkabān |
Ancient site | S²bm |
Geographical area | al-Maḥwīt |
Country | Yemen |
Link to site record |
Höfner 1981: 12-13, pl. II/1, 2 | Höfner, Maria 1981. Sabäische Inschriften. (Letzte Folge). Sammlung Eduard Glaser. 14. (Sitzungsberichte der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 378). Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. |
Bron 1992: 57-59 (photo) | Bron, François 1992. Mémorial Mahmud al-Ghul. Inscriptions sudarabiques. Paris: Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner / Sanʿāʾ: Centre français d'études yéménites. |
Stein 2010: 161-162 | Stein, Peter 2010. Die altsüdarabischen Minuskelinschriften auf Holzstäbchen aus der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek in München. (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 5). Tübingen: Wasmuth. |