Language | Ancient South Arabian » Ḥaḍramitic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Measure of letters | 4 c. | ||
Chronology |
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1 | Jamme reads confidently: qyf bny Lḥb ("Parts of the last four letters are almost completely destroyed; there remain enough of the inside cutting to ascertain their reading"). |
1-2 | Avanzini suggests that it should be emended: bn<y>. |
3 | Jamme reads ʾs¹(r); Avanzini proposes ʾs¹[y]. |
English | |
1 Stele of the banu Lḥb who (i.e. which, Ed.) 2 built Yfrt Ynʿm, in order to be 3 located and be placed on the gate 4 and be placed in the (sacred) place of Sin. |
Avanzini 2002: 136-137 | Avanzini, Alessandra 2002. The construction inscriptions on the gate complex. Pages 125-140 in Alessandra Avanzini (ed.). Khor Rori Report 1. (Arabia Antica, 1). Pisa: Edizioni Plus-Università di Pisa. |
English | |
1 Memorial [which] has built Lâḥib, son 2 of Yufrut Yunʿim, to 3 be attached and set up at the gate 4 and to be set up in the irrigated land of Sîn. |
Jamme 1979 | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1979. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe IX. Washington. 2019/07/23; https://cuislandora.wrlc.org/islandora/object/cuislandora%3A205328#page/1/mode/1up. [Privately printed] |
English | |
1 Stela that Lḥb son of 2 Yfrt Ynʿm built, in order to be 3 ? and placed on the gate 4 and in order to be placed in the (sacred) place of S¹yn. |
Deposit | Salālah, Museum, no. 4 (M 494) |
Support type | Inscription on architectural structure » Gate |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 24, w. 35 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Khawr Rūrī |
Ancient site | S¹mhrm / S¹mrm |
Geographical area | Southern Ẓufār |
Country | Oman |
Archaeological context | Urban context: City gate |
Link to site record |
Jamme 1979: 98-99, pl. j | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1979. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe IX. Washington. 2019/07/23; https://cuislandora.wrlc.org/islandora/object/cuislandora%3A205328#page/1/mode/1up. [Privately printed] |
Albright 1982: 44, 87, pl. 36, fig. 67 | Albright, Frank P. 1982. The American Archaeological Expedition in Dhofar, Oman, 1952-1953. (Publications of the American Foundation for the Study of Man, 6). Washington: American Foundation for the Study of Man / Philadelphia, Pa.: Distributed by G. Allen, Bookseller. |
Avanzini 2002: 136-137, fig. 11 | Avanzini, Alessandra 2002. The construction inscriptions on the gate complex. Pages 125-140 in Alessandra Avanzini (ed.). Khor Rori Report 1. (Arabia Antica, 1). Pisa: Edizioni Plus-Università di Pisa. |