Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Measure of letters | 2.5-3 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Legal text |
This text appears to complete the decree of Nihm/Barrān 5, with the addition of other territories dedicated to the god Taʾlab. |
1 | Mḫl(y)m: the reading of this noun is based on Nihm/Barrān 5, 2. |
2-3 | S²rgn could be a toponym, probably the name of a valley. But it is also interpretable as common noun (s²rgn), with the meaning of "watercourse, channel". |
French | |
1 Propriété de Taʾlab, Seigneur de Makhliyyum: 2 toute la plaine dans le (jusqu'au ?) débouché (?) de Shirgān (du cours d'eau ?) 3 et le droit de prendre les petits sur 4 tout petit bétail. |
Frantsouzoff 2016: 105-106 | Frantsouzoff, 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] |
Support type | Inscription on architectural structure » Pillar |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 220, w. 27, th. 31 (total); h. 13, w. 25 (text) |
Link to object record |
Modern site | al-ʿĀdī |
Ancient site | Brn |
Geographical area | Nihm |
Country | Yemen |
Link to site record |
Modern site | al-Ḥārith |
Ancient site | unknown |
Geographical area | Barrān |
Country | Yemen |
Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
Notes | Reemployed inside the mosque of the village Masjid al-Ḥārith. |
Link to site record |
Frantsouzoff 2016: 105-106, pls 24/a, 25 | Frantsouzoff, 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] |
Bauer and Lundin 1998: 130-131, fig. 273 | Bauer, 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] |
Höfner 1954: 32-36 (photograph) | Höfner, Maria 1954. Taʾlab als Patron der Kleinviehhirten. Serta Cantabrigiensia: 29-36. |