Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Measure of letters | 3.5-4 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
English | |
1 [ʾ]ws¹n and his son ʾws¹krb and 2 Rbm and their son Rḍwn, of the family 3 S²wbn, vassals of the family S¹ḫymm, dedicated 4 to their Patron Tʾlb Rymm, Lord of Ḥbn, 5 the statue as the tithe they offer Him from the crops 6 of their land [... ...]. By Tʾlb Rymm. |
Support type | Artefact » Base » Of statue with dedicatory inscription |
Link to object record |
Modern site | al-Ghalīl (of wādī Shirā‘) |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | Nihm |
Country | Yemen |
Link to site record |
Schaffer 1972: 28-30, pl. VI, fig. 12 | Schaffer, Brigitte 1972. Sabäische Inschriften aus verschiedenen Fundorten. Sammlung Eduard Glaser. 7. (Sitzungsberichte der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 282/1). Vienna: Böhlaus in Komm. |