Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Early Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Script cursus | Boustrophedon | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Commemorative text |
1-2 | Dexstrograde lines. |
4 | The initial "bn" is dextrograde; the shape of the letter "d" of the word "Dnm" is peculiar. |
English | |
1 [... ...] ʿms²fq [... ...] 2 these has captured 3 ʿms²fq, son of Brhmw, 4 ibn Gdnm, at Dnm and ʾry ‒ 5 dy with Krbʾl Wtr [... ...] |
Support type | Rock inscription |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Shiʿb al-ʿAql |
Ancient site | Dnm (?) / ʾrydy (?) |
Geographical area | Wādī Yalā |
Country | Yemen |
Found | In situ |
Link to site record |
Garbini 1988: 24, pl. 39/b | Garbini, Giovanni 1988. The inscriptions of Si'b al-'Aql, Al-Gafnah and Yala/Ad-Durayb. Pages 21-40 in Alessandro de Maigret (ed.). The Sabaean archaeological complex in the Wādī Yalā (Eastern Hawlān at-Tiyāl, Yemen Arab Republic). A preliminary report. (Istituto italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente. Centro studi e scavi archeologici. Reports and memoirs, 21). Rome: IsMEO. |
Jamme 1989: 76-77 | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1989. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe XVII. Washington. 2019/07/23; https://cuislandora.wrlc.org/islandora/object/cuislandora%3A202034#page/1/mode/1up. [Privately printed] |