CSAI

Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions


INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Ḥaḍramitic
AlphabetAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Writing techniqueIncision
Chronology
PeriodD

TEXT


   1  fʿl S¹lmm ʾs¹ym w-Lḥyʿm ḏwy Ḥbm s²my mws¹ṭ byt*|*-s¹my S²bʿn w-Ygl

Apparatus
Between byt and s¹my a separation trait.

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  S¹lmm made (this bowl); ʾs¹ym and Lḥyʿm, both of the clan Ḥbm, put (it) as furniture of their two houses S²bʿn and Ygl.
For the translation of mws¹ṭ, see Wādī Ḍuraʾ 1 or LPC 6 A.

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeArtefact » Container » Bowl
MaterialSilver
Measuresh. 4.3, d. 14
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin. Conjectural
Modern siteHajar am-Dhaybiyya
Ancient siteUnknown
Geographical areaWādī Ḍura
CountryYemen
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Kitchen 2009: 247, fig. 30/13 (facsimile)Kitchen, Kenneth A. 2009. A glimpse of the wealth of the Shabwa nobility at the fall of the kingdom of Hadramawt. Pages 243-275 in Jean-François Breton (ed.). Shabwa et son contexte architectural et artistique du Ier siècle avant J.-C. au IVe siècle après J.-C.. Jean-François Breton (ed.), Fouilles de Shabwa. 4. Ṣanʿāʾ: Centre français d'archéologie et de sciences sociales de Ṣanʿāʾ / Beirut: Institut français d'archéologie du Proche-Orient.