Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Early Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Script cursus | Boustrophedon | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
English | |
1 [ʾb]s¹mʿ ʾṯqf 2 son of ʿmyṯʿ 3 descendant of S¹ʿnm, has 4 dedicated to ʾlmqh. |
Rijziger 2017 a: 68-69 | Rijziger, Sarah 2017. The first epigraphic evidence of the existence of Thulā in antiquity. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 28: 67-74. 2019/10/19; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/16000471/2017/28/1. |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Thulā |
Ancient site | Ṯly |
Geographical area | Shibām-Kawkabān |
Country | Yemen |
Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of ʾlmqh |
Link to site record |
Rijziger 2017 a: 68-70, fig. 5 | Rijziger, Sarah 2017. The first epigraphic evidence of the existence of Thulā in antiquity. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 28: 67-74. 2019/10/19; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/16000471/2017/28/1. |
Hayajneh 2000 a: 24-26, fig. 1 | Hayajneh, Hani 2000. Eine Altsabäische Inschrift aus Tulā, Jemen. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 11/1: 24-27. |