Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Late Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Relief | ||
Measure of letters | 3.5 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Construction text - fragmentary |
1 | We assume that the first two names belong to the onomastic formula of the author, and are names of clan. |
7 | for Ymnt see Robin 2013: 131-133. |
9 | both hrṯ-hw and ḥrṯ-hw are possible. |
English | |
1 [... ...]frʿ and of B[...], qyl and mḥrg of their tribe ḏ-[... ...] 2 [... ... ] and its water conduit (?) Yġl in the land of the family of ḏ-Ḥbb, on the summit [of? ... ...] 3 [... ...] the tank of Mhkn from its foundation to its top and every hollow (?) of it [... ...] 4 [... ...] Mhkn, the summit of the valley up to its lowland, and he built it and [... ...] 5 [... ...]. in this canal, a field (?) and a land with summer crops [... ...] 6 [... ...] and vineyards, and the whole of this completion and construction (was realized) by the support of Rḥmnn [... ...] 7 [... ...] Mrṯdʾln Ynf king of Sabaʾ, ḏu-Raydān, Ḥaḍramawt and Yamnat and their nomads of Ṭawd and Tihāma [... ...] 8 [... ...] the king Mrṯdʾln, to build this tank, and by the support and the help of [... ...] 9 [... ...] .. and his ploughed land as well as their daughters and their children and for all [... ...] |
Deposit | Dhamār, Regional Museum, DhM 287 |
Support type | Artefact » Slab |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 40, w. 70, th. 7; Monogram: h. 11, w. 7 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Unknown |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | al-Ḥadāʾ |
Country | Yemen |
Archaeological context | Agricultural irrigation context |
Link to site record |
Robin 2013 | Robin, Christian J. 2013. À propos de Ymnt et Ymn: « nord » et « sud », « droite » et « gauche », dans les inscriptions de l'Arabie antique. Pages 119-140 in Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet, Catherine Fauveaud and Iwona Gajda (eds). Entre Carthage et l’Arabie heureuse. Mélanges offerts à François Bron. (Orient & Méditerranée, 12). Paris: de Boccard. |