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Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions


Solá Solé 1964: pl. XII/1
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic
AlphabetAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Measure of letters5
Chronology
PeriodB. Conjectural
Textual typologyDedicatory text - fragmentary

TEXT


   1  [... ... ](ʾlkr)b hqny[ ... ...]
   2  [... ... ](ʾ)wld-hw w-q[ny-hw ... ...]
   3  [... ...]w Tʾlb ḏt[ ... ...]
   4  [... ... ](w)-s²ry ḫrfn (q)[... ...]
   5  [... ... ]Tʾlb lby[... ... b-Tʾlb]
   6  [Rym]m|

Apparatus
We could integrate: ḏ-T[rʿt.
5Solá Solé integrates: l-by[t-hw ...].

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  [… ...] ʾlkrb dedicated [… ...]
   2  [... …] and his children and [his] posse[ssion ... …]
   3  [… ...] Tʾlb [... …]
   4  [… ...] and He saved the autumn crops [… ...]
   5  [… ...] Tʾlb [ ... …] By Tʾlb
   6  Rym]m.

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeStone inscription
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin and provenance
Modern siteJabal Riyām
Ancient siteTrʿt
Geographical areaArḥab
CountryYemen
Archaeological contextReligious context: Temple of Tʾlb Rymm
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Solá Solé 1964: 40, pl. XII/1Solá Solé, Josep M. 1964. Inschriften aus Riyām. Sammlung Eduard Glaser. 4. (Sitzungsberichte der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 243/4). Vienna: Böhlaus.