Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Measure of letters | about 3.5 | ||
Chronology |
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1 | The text seems to be complete at the beginning, though in the broken corner there is space for few other letters. |
4 | Our emendation to the text is motivated by being ḏ-Ẓlwmn exclusively attested - in texts from Baraqish and Maʿīn - as name of clan (which excludes that nḫl is an apposition of ḏ-Ẓlwmn, and then that the latter is a toponym), and also by being the preposition byn always followed by two elements coordinated by w. |
English | |
1 Boundary which did set 2 Sabaʾ and the colonists 3 of the ms³wdn (?) between ḏ- 4 Ẓlwmn [and] the palmgrove of S¹- 5 mhʾmr, king of I- 6 nabbaʾ. |
3 | The term ms³wdn, as a collective noun referring to a class of people, is translated as "landlords" in SD: 139. |
Deposit | Ṣanʿāʾ, University Museum, A-20-849 |
Support type | Monumental stela |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 51, w. 32, th. 10 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Unknown |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | wādī al-Jawf |
Country | Yemen |
Link to site record |