Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Southern Middle Sabaic | ||||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||||
Writing technique | Incision | ||||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Construction text |
This inscription is known for almost a century thanks to a copy (SE 105) of the Austrian expedition. |
4 | Robin, wrongly: ḏ-Mḏrʾn. |
English | |
1 Frʿn Yzl, ibn Ḏrnḥ, Hṣbḥ, Yʿgf, qyl of the two tribes of Qs²mm and Mḍḥym, 2 they built, laid the foundations, completed their two dams S¹wrm and Yrʿẓ above their vineyards, that of Qyln 3 and the two of Ḏhbm. With the power of their two lords Ys¹rm Yhnʿm and his son S²mr Yhrʿs², the two kings of Sabaʾ 4 and ḏu-Raydān. In the month Mḏrʾn, in the year three hundred sixteen of the years of N- 5 bṭm ḏ-Ḫrf. |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 34, w. 127 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Unknown |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | wādī dhū ʾl-Qayl |
Country | Yemen |
Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
Archaeological context | Agricultural irrigation context |
Link to site record |
Robin 1998 a: 144-145, fig. 8 | Robin, Christian J. 1998. Décompte du temps et souveraineté politique en Arabie méridionale. Pages 121-151 in Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet and Hélène Lozachmeur (eds). Proche-Orient ancien. Temps vécu, temps pensé. Actes de la table ronde du 15 novembre 1997 organisée par l'URA 1062 "Etudes Sémitiques". (Antiquités sémitiques, 3). Paris: Jean Maisonneuve. |
Robin and Dridi 2004: 81-84, fig. 22 | Robin, Christian J. and Dridi, Hédi 2004. Deux barrages du Yémen antique. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres: 67-121. |
Müller, Walter W. 2010: 37 | Müller, Walter W. 2010. Sabäische Inschriften nach Ären datiert. Bibliographie, Texte und Glossar. (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission, 53). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. |