Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Southern Middle Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Measure of letters | 13 (A); 7 (B) | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Construction text |
Ll.1-7: MAFRAY-Maḫliq 1 A; ll.8-10: MAFRAY-Maḫliq 1 B. |
8 | ḏt is morphologically singular but is referred to a plural noun. It might be a mistake for ḏtn (plural of the demonstrative ḏn in Qatabanic, also used in Sabaic inscriptions from the southern highlands). |
English | |
1 Hwfʿm Yzʾn, Nbṭʿm and ʿbdʿm, sons of ʾbḏḫr, Ys²rn, Ḏrḥn and Y- 2 rm, and their children Ḏrḥn, ʾbʾns¹ and Ns²ʾm, banū Ḫbzn and Ḏrft dug up, 3 built and completed the whole channel, dam (?), construction, and the equipment (or: water-channels) which bring up the waters and the flow of 4 ḏ-S²ḥṭtm for the irrigation of their valley Qrnm; by ʿṯtr S²rqn, ʿm ḏ-Mbrqm, ʿm ḏ-Wʿlm, 5 ʿm Wrdm, ḏt Ẓhrn and their ʾs²ms¹, and by the command of their lord ʿmdn Yhqbḍ, king of Sa- 6 baʾ and ḏu-Raydān, and by their ʾqwl Hwfʿm, Wtrm and Lḥyʿt, and their children banū Mʿhr 7 and ḏ-Ḫwln, lords of the house Hrn, and by their tribe ḏ-Mʿdwn and their economic contribution, and by the power of their vassals. 8 They committed these inscriptions 9 and equipment to ʿṯtr S²r- 10 qn against the one who may cause damages. |
Concerning ḥrt and yʿlwn, see MAFRAY-ḏī-Ḥadīd 2. |
Support type | Rock inscription |
Measures | h. 93, w. 217; h. 22, w. 40 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Qāniya |
Ancient site | Qnʾtm |
Geographical area | Radmān |
Country | Yemen |
Found | In situ |
Archaeological context | Agricultural irrigation context: Basin |
Link to site record |
ʿAbdallāh 1979 a: 57-61 | ʿAbdallāh, Yūsuf M. 1979. Mudawwana al-nuqūš al-yamaniyya al-qadīma. Dirāsāt Yamaniyya, 2: 47-75. |
Robin 1991: 169-170, fig. 4 | Robin, Christian J. 1991. ʿAmdān Bayyin Yuhaqbid, roi de Sabaʾ et de dū-Raydān. Pages 167-205 in Études sud-arabes. Recueil offert à Jacques Ryckmans. (Publications de l'Institut Orientaliste de Louvain, 39). Louvain-La-Neuve: Université Catholique de Louvain, Institut Orientaliste. |