Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Southern Middle Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Commemorative text |
English | |
1 Hwfʿm Yzʾn ibn Ḫbzn and Ḏrft 2 stood out for his solar deity during the killing of eight soldiers, 3 one female slave and a qs¹d (?), and he praised 4 the power of his solar deity, for the memory of (Her) favourable will. |
For the translation of the verb ʿfr, see MAFRAY-al-Miʿsāl 7 | |
For the various interpretations of qs¹d (Robin: "farmier"; Bron: "priest"), see Stein 2003 a: 117, fn. 535. |
Stein 2003 a | Stein, Peter 2003. Untersuchungen zur Phonologie und Morphologie des Sabäischen. (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 3). Rahden: Marie Leidorf GmbH / Westf.: Marie Leidorf GmbH. |
Support type | Rock inscription |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Qāniya |
Ancient site | Qnʾtm |
Geographical area | Radmān |
Country | Yemen |
Found | In situ |
Link to site record |
Robin 1991: 187-188, fig. 24 | Robin, Christian J. 1991. ʿAmdān Bayyin Yuhaqbid, roi de Sabaʾ et de dū-Raydān. Pages 167-205 in Études sud-arabes. Recueil offert à Jacques Ryckmans. (Publications de l'Institut Orientaliste de Louvain, 39). Louvain-La-Neuve: Université Catholique de Louvain, Institut Orientaliste. |