Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Measure of letters | 5.5 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Construction text - fragmentary |
The text could be fragmentary on the left side too. | |
3 | b-ʿṯtr w-b Hwbs¹] (editors). |
4 | [w-ḏt Bʿdn] (editors). |
English | |
1 [......] descendant of Ḏrḥn and ʿlhn, they of ʿḍdn, qayls of 2 [......] its (or: his) water-course Ygḍ and its (or: his) basin Myḥm 3 [......] ʾlmqh and ḏt Ḥmym. |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 19, w. 42 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | ʿAṭṭān |
Ancient site | ʿḍdn |
Geographical area | Sanʿāʾ |
Country | Yemen |
Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
Archaeological context | Agricultural irrigation context |
Link to site record |
Arbach and al-Ḥalabī 2005: 41, fig. 2 | Arbach, Mounir and al-Ḥalabī, Muḥammad 2005. Awwal naqš sabaʾī yaḏkur madīna Ḥadda. Ṣanʿāʾ fī ḥawālī al-qarn al-ṯanī qabla al-mīlād. Adūmātū, 12: 39-44. |
Robin 2013 a: 149-150, fig. 5 | Robin, Christian J. 2013. Matériaux pour une prosopographie de l'Arabie antique: les noblesses sabéenne et ḥimyarite avant et après l'Íslam. Pages 127-269 in Christian J. Robin and Jérémie Schiettecatte. Les préludes de l'Islam. Ruptures et continuités des civilisations du Proche-Orient, de l'Afrique orientale, de l'Arabie et de l'Inde à la veille de l'Islam. (Orient et Méditerranée, 11). Paris: De Boccard. |