Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Relief | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
The inscription Fa 65 bis is identical to Fa 65, except for the addition of the formula Wdʾb between the lines 1 and 2. |
1 | G. Ryckmans read [K]brm corrected in Brm by Salami 2011: 54. |
1-2 | Between the lines 1 and 2 there is the formula Wdʾb. |
English | |
1 Krbm ʾḫtr and Hʿn ʾs¹ʿd, of the family Gdnm, and [... ... ...]m 2 Yʿrr, of the families Ḥbtlm and Zbnr, dedicated to their tutelary deity [... ...] 3 from their booty from the city of S²bwt, when [they followed their lord S²ʿrm ʾwtr] 4 king of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān, son of ʿlhn Nhfn, king of Sabaʾ [... ...]. |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 25, w. 83 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Maʾrib |
Ancient site | Mryb / Mrb |
Geographical area | Maʾrib |
Country | Yemen |
Link to site record |
Fakhry 1952: i, 108, n. 124, fig. 56 | Fakhry, Ahmed 1952. An archaeological Journey to Yemen (March-May 1947). (3 vols), Cairo: Government Press. |
Ryckmans, Gonzague 1952: ii, 50 | Ryckmans, Gonzague 1952. Epigraphical texts. Ahmed Fakhry, An archaeological Journey to Yemen (March-May 1947). ii. Cairo: Government Press. |
al-Salami 2011: 54 | al-Salami, Mohammed Ali 2011. Sabäische Inschriften aus dem Ḫawlān. (Jenaer Beiträge zum Vorderen Orient, 7). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. |
Rijziger 2017 b: 238-239, 243 | Rijziger, Sarah 2017. Two new inscriptions mentioning Rabbum ʾAkhṭar, a military commander of the Sabaean king in the first half of the third century AD. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 28/2: 238-245. 2019/10/19; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/16000471/2017/28/2. |