Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Early Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Measure of letters | 3 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
4 | At the end the editor integrates: bn[y-hw]. |
7 | At the end the editor integrates: d[r ... |
8 | At the end the editor integrates: s¹[ʾl ... |
English | |
1 [Hwf]ʿṯt and ʾlk[rb ... 2 [...]krb of the family ʾws¹m, of the family ... 3 ... subjects of Yṯʿʾmr dedicated 4 ... to ʿṯtr and Wdm the ghayl ... 5 [H]wfʿṯt and all their persons 6 and their children and their properties ... 7 when Hwfʿṯt was established controller of irrigation (?) 8 ... for the second time in the valley Ḥdqn ... 9 ... He satiated and irrigated all irrigated land ... 10 ... the ghayls and ʿṯtr satiated and irrigated ... 11 ... and He granted autumn and spring crops ... |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 37, w. 28, th. 17 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Bayt Dughaysh |
Ancient site | Ḥdqn |
Geographical area | Ṣanʿāʾ |
Country | Yemen |
Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
Link to site record |
Bauer and Lundin 1998: 30-31, photo 121 | Bauer, Gleb M. and Lundin (=Loundine), Avraam G. 1998. Pamjatniki Drevnej Istorii i Kultury. Južnaja Aravija. Part 2: Epigraficheskie pamjiatniki drevnego Jemena. 2. St.-Petersburg: Zentr "Peterburgskoe vostokovedenie". [Akademia nauk, Institut Vostokovedenija, Sankt-Peterburgskiy filial] |