Haram 55
Tschinkowitz-Nagler 1975: pl. VIII/2
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Early Sabaic |
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian |
| Script typology | Monumental writing |
| Writing technique | Incision |
| Measure of letters | 5 |
| Textual typology | Dedicatory text - fragmentary |
GENERAL NOTES
| The text could be dated to period A or B on the palaeographical basis, although it is difficult to read. |
TEXT
1 (N)s²rm S²s³ʿn s³lʾ (S²rqn)( w)-[... ...]-
2 (h)mw nfs¹-hw w-(wld)-(h)w w-mhrt-[hw ... ...]
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Ns²rm S²s³ʿn dedicated to S²rqn and [... their ...] 2 himself, his sons and [his] possessions [... ...] |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Stone inscription |
| Material | Stone |
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Kharibat Hamdān |
| Ancient site | Hrm |
| Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī Madhab |
| Country | Yemen |
| Notes | There is no evidence that the text comes from Haram. Höfner 1944: 68, proposed this provenance for the presence of the Sabaic suffix pronouns together with the Madhabaic verb of dedication s³lʾ. This is a well attested phenomenon in Haram, but it is not restricted to Haram only. |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Tschinkowitz-Nagler 1975: pl. VIII/2 | Tschinkowitz-Nagler, Helga 1975. Kleine Fragmente. (II. Teil). Sammlung Eduard Glaser. 11. (Sitzungsberichte der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 301/3). Vienna: Verlag der Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. |
| Robin 1992 a: 125, pl. 20/c | Robin, Christian J. 1992. Inabbaʾ, Haram, al-Kāfir, Kamna et al-Ḥarāshif. Fasc. A: Les documents. Fasc. B: Les planches. Inventaire des inscriptions sudarabiques. 1. Paris: de Boccard / Rome: Herder. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres; Istituto italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente] |