Language | Ancient South Arabian » Qatabanic » Central Qatabanic |
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian |
Script typology | Monumental writing |
Writing technique | Incision |
Measure of letters | 3.5 |
Textual typology | Construction text |
This inscription, as well as the other Qatabanic texts of tomb constructions, belongs probably to the period B |
English | |
1 Hrʿd and Mhrʿdm sons of ʿmʿly and ʾbʿm son of ʾs¹mr 2 the ones of the family Wqht and Lḥyʿm son of ʿmṣdq and Hwfʿṯt son of ʿms²bm ḏ-Wqh- 3 t made and gained legal possession of their grave ʾs¹dḥrm and its hall and its inner rooms in its entirety according to the orders of ʾ- 4 nby and let there be no violation thereof; and Hrʿd possessed one fourth and Mhrʿdm and 5 ʾbʿm one fourth and Lḥyʿm one fourth and Hwfʿṯt one fourth. |
Deposit | Aden, The National Museum, AM 60.1284 |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 25.5, w. 76.3, th. 4.6 (up) 3.5 (down) |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Unknown |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | Unknown |
Country | Unknown |
Archaeological context | Funerary context: Tomb ʾs¹dḥrm |
Link to site record |
Jamme 1971 b: 132 | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1971. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe II. Washington. 2019/07/23; https://cuislandora.wrlc.org/islandora/object/cuislandora%3A206497#page/1/mode/1up. [Privately printed] |
Hayajneh 2002: 203-205, fig. 14 | Hayajneh, Hani 2002. Erneute Behandlung einiger altsüdarabischen Inschriften. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 13/2: 193-222. |