Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Early Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Script cursus | Boustrophedon | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Measure of letters | 4.4 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Construction text |
The photo, published here for the first time, confirmed that the stone is broken on the left side, where about two letters are missing. On the other hand, this was clear from the first editions of the text (RES, following Jaussen: "pierre tronquée de tous côtés" and Mordtmann-Mittwoch). On the contrary, Jamme's reading seemed to indicate a perfectly complete stone. The publication of Ghul's estampage by Hayajneh has indeed confirmed Jamme's reading. The only possible explanation for this contradiction is to suppose the existence of different copies of the same text, of which one is complete, and the other one is fragmentary. This seems to be true as Hayajneh declares that in Ghul's Nachlass there are four pieces with siglum RES 3902bis n. 131 (=AM 60.1313). |
The text between brackets is only in Ghul's estampage (following Jamme's former edition). | |
1 | Jamme restores bn[w] Lzn. |
2-3 | ḫ reversed. |
English | |
1 ʾbʾmr son of Ṣbḥm of the family Lzn 2 constructed and completed his basin Yfd, which 3 irrigates his palmgrove Grbḥ, by ʿṯ‒ 4 tr and by ʾlmqh and by ḏt Ḥmym. |
Deposit | Aden, The National Museum, NAM 2364=AM 60.1813 |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 20, w. 43, th. 7.5 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Unknown |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | Unknown |
Country | Unknown |
Archaeological context | Agricultural irrigation context |
Link to site record |
Jamme 1952 b: 130 | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1952. Pièces épigraphiques sud-arabes de la collection de K. Muncherjee, I. Le Muséon, 65: 95-137. |
Hayajneh 2001: 243-245, fig. 9 | Hayajneh, Hani 2001. Anmerkungen zu einigen altsüdarabischen Inschriften anhand von Abklatschen aus dem Nachlass Mahmud al-Ghul. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 12/2: 236-248. |