Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Southern Middle Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Measure of letters | 3.5 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Construction text |
1 | The reading of the patronymic is dubious. It could be possibly S²mr. |
English | |
1 Klyb Yhʾmn son of Ys²mr Yhḥmd ḏ-Mʿfrm and Ḍbʾm and [..]ryn and [.]— 2 [.]n of the family Klʿn and ʾʿs¹yfr and ḏ-Ḥblm made and built the temple of the god 3 ḏ-S¹mwy, god of the ʾmrm, which is in the plain Ṣyrtn, below the city of S³wm. May ḏ- 4 S¹mwy, god of the ʾmrm, grant safety, security and protection to Klyb Yhʾmn 5 and to his sons, of the family Mʿfrm, lords of the palace S²bʿn, and the safety of everything they own. |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 20, w. 75 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | as-Sawā |
Ancient site | S³wm |
Geographical area | al-Maʿāfir |
Country | Yemen |
Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of ḏ-S¹mwy ʾlh ʾmrm |
Link to site record |
ʿAbdallāh 1988 c: 105-106, 112-113 (photo) | ʿAbdallāh, Yūsuf M. 1988. Madīna al-Sawā fī "Kitāb al-Ṭawāf ḥawl al-baḥr al-Irītirī". Raydān, 5: 101-113 (Arabic section). |
ʿAbdallāh 1988 e | ʿAbdallāh, Yūsuf M. 1988. Madīnat as-Sawā fī "Kitāb aṭ-Ṭawāf ḥawl al-baḥr al-Irītirī". Dirāsāt Yamaniyya, 34/Oct-Dec: 30-49. |
Bāfaqīh 1991: 31-48, fig. 1 | Bāfaqīh, Muḥammad ʿA. 1991. Naqš al-Sawā: al-naṣṣ wa-l-tāʾriḫ. Pages 31-48 in Études sud-arabes. Recueil offert à Jacques Ryckmans. (Publications de l'Institut Orientaliste de Louvain, 39). Louvain-La-Neuve: Université Catholique de Louvain, Institut Orientaliste. |
Robin 1991 a: 11-12, pl. 2 | Robin, Christian J. 1991. L'Arabie du sud et la date du Périple de la mer Erythrée (nouvelles données). Journal Asiatique, 279: 1-30. |
Robin 1994 e: 91-95, pl. 47 | Robin, Christian J. 1994. Kulayb Yuhaʾmin est-il le Χόλαιβος du Périple de la mer Érithrée?. Raydān, 6: 91-99. |