Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic |
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian |
Script typology | Monumental writing |
Writing technique | Incision |
Measure of letters | 2.5 |
Textual typology | Legal text |
3 | Höfner reads kbrhn, as a plural form ("mehrere Monate"). |
English | |
1 There is nothing owed by Rbʾl of Ḥbb and his partners in 2 respect of any outstanding debt in Ḥyʾly currency 3 which they have been incurring on the dates as testified. They have 4 (now) discharged this debt, contracted in the year of ʾlkrb 5 son of Yqhmlk kbr ḫll. |
1 | Höfner: "Und dies (ist es), was zu Lasten des Rbʾl ḏū-Ḥbb ist…" ("and this is what is imposed to Rbʾl…"). |
Höfner 1973: 41 | Höfner, Maria 1973. Inschriften aus Ṣirwāḥ, Ḫaulān. (I Teil). Sammlung Eduard Glaser. 8. (Sitzungsberichte der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 291/1). Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Ṣirwāḥ-Khawlān |
Ancient site | Ṣrwḥ |
Geographical area | Ṣirwāḥ |
Country | Yemen |
Link to site record |
Höfner 1973: 39-42, pl. XII, 1-2 | Höfner, Maria 1973. Inschriften aus Ṣirwāḥ, Ḫaulān. (I Teil). Sammlung Eduard Glaser. 8. (Sitzungsberichte der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 291/1). Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. |
Beeston 1974: 423 | Beeston, Alfred F.L. 1974. Sabaean Marginalia II. Annali dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli, 34/3: 421-428. |
Beeston 1978 b: 201-202 | Beeston, Alfred F.L. 1978. Notes on Old South Arabian Lexicography XI. Le Muséon, 91: 195-209. |