Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Measure of letters | 5 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
1-9 | The letters d and m are written as their mirror-images. The same occurs for the k in the word kwn (ll. 5 and 8). The word separators are frequently missing. |
1 | Trʿmym is corrected by the editor in Tnʿmym. Instead of the mimation a nunation would be here expexted. |
8-9 | The reading is completely hypothetical. |
English | |
1 Ḥywm, he of Trʿm (or, Tnʿm), 2 son of Lḥy, of the family Grʿm, 3 protegee of ʾlmqh ḏ-S²wḥṭ, (dedicated) 4 when he entrusted to His protection his offsprings 5 and his ancestors. And this dedication 6 took place on the fifth (day) of the first decade of (the month) 7 Nylm in the year of Ddʾmr 8 of Kbs¹ym [... ...] |
8 | "which was the year of mḥlm", following the editor. |
al-Salami 2011: 44-47 | al-Salami, Mohammed Ali 2011. Sabäische Inschriften aus dem Ḫawlān. (Jenaer Beiträge zum Vorderen Orient, 7). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. |
Support type | Rock inscription |
Measures | w. 52 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Rayd Mukhtān |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | Jabal al-Lawz |
Country | Yemen |
Link to site record |
al-Salami 2011: 44-47, fig. 17/a-b | al-Salami, Mohammed Ali 2011. Sabäische Inschriften aus dem Ḫawlān. (Jenaer Beiträge zum Vorderen Orient, 7). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. |