Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Early Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Script cursus | Boustrophedon | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Legal text |
6 | Arbach reads s²ʾmtm. |
7 | Arbach reads hqnyt. |
English | |
1 Ṣdqyfʿ, son of Ḥmʿṯt, ibn ʿnmt ‒ 2 n, sold and dedicated to ʿṯtr S²ymm in 3 Rḥb his daughter Hrbm whom he generated with 4 his servant Ḥytm whom he purchased from ʾbs¹m- 5 ʿ of Ḫlfn; and Hrbm must be (in the temple), as (the other women) dedicated to ʿṯtr S²ymm 6 must be. And this sale 7 and the dedication were (lit. "was") in the first month of Ns¹wr (or: in the month of Ns¹wr, the former), during the priesthood of 8 S¹mhkrb ḏ-Mbḥrt. Witnesses thereof are Bʿṯtr ibn 9 ʿnmtn and Bʿṯtr son of S²hrʿly [...]. |
5-6 | "que Hrbm mette en vigueur l'engagement, conformément à ce qui a été décrété dans l'acte d'achat de ʿAtthar" (Arbach). "and Hrbm might be (in the temple), as there were (the other women) the possessions of ʿṯtr S²ymm" (Avanzini). |
7 | "in the first ten days of the month Ns¹wr" (Avanzini). |
Arbach 2005 b: 315 | Arbach, Mounir 2005. Le commerce d'esclaves en Arabie du Sud préislamique d'après une nouvelle inscription sabéenne du VIIe s. av. J.-C. Pages 314-317 in Alexander V. Sedov and Irina M. Smilyanskaya (eds). Arabia Vitalis. Studies in honour of Vitaly V. Naumkin. Moscow: Rossiikaya Akademiya Nauk. |
Avanzini 2006: 40 | Avanzini, Alessandra 2006. To accompany a recently published Sabaic text: historical and grammatical remarks. Pages 37-46 in Pier Giorgio Borbone, Alessandro Mengozzi and Mauro Tosco (eds). Loquentes linguis. Studi in onore di Fabrizio A. Pennacchietti. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. |
Stein 2009: 89-90 | Stein, Peter 2009. Review of Borbone, Pier Giorgio, Mengozzi, Alessandro and Tosco, Mauro (eds) 2006. Loquentes linguis. Studi in onore di Fabrizio A. Pennacchietti. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. Zeitschrift für Arabische Linguistik, 50: 87-96. |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Ṣirwāḥ-Khawlān |
Ancient site | Ṣrwḥ |
Geographical area | Ṣirwāḥ |
Country | Yemen |
Link to site record |
Arbach 2005 b: 314-317, fig. 1 | Arbach, Mounir 2005. Le commerce d'esclaves en Arabie du Sud préislamique d'après une nouvelle inscription sabéenne du VIIe s. av. J.-C. Pages 314-317 in Alexander V. Sedov and Irina M. Smilyanskaya (eds). Arabia Vitalis. Studies in honour of Vitaly V. Naumkin. Moscow: Rossiikaya Akademiya Nauk. |
Avanzini 2006: 39-44, fig. 1 | Avanzini, Alessandra 2006. To accompany a recently published Sabaic text: historical and grammatical remarks. Pages 37-46 in Pier Giorgio Borbone, Alessandro Mengozzi and Mauro Tosco (eds). Loquentes linguis. Studi in onore di Fabrizio A. Pennacchietti. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. |