Language | Ancient South Arabian » Qatabanic » Awsanite | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Measure of letters | 3.3 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Dedicatory text - fragmentary |
English | |
1 [... ...] ʿqrbn for his sons and his house Yfʿn, land 2 [... ...] in the region of the town Rḥb as Wdm ordered in his o- 3 racle [... ... ] and may He continually show favour and protection to ʿqrbn in all the things that he will ask (Him) for. |
3 | "... in all the affairs (in which) he engages" (Avanzini 2004 a). |
Avanzini 2004 a: 543 | Avanzini, Alessandra 2004. Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions I-III. Qatabanic, Marginal Qatabanic, Awsanite Inscriptions. (Arabia Antica, 2). Pisa: Edizioni Plus-Università di Pisa. |
Deposit | Aden, The National Museum, NAM 1646 |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 27, w. 55, th. 12 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Raḥaba |
Ancient site | Rḥb |
Geographical area | Wādī Raḥab |
Country | Yemen |
Link to site record |
Pirenne 1981: 221-222, fig. 4, facsimile | Pirenne, Jacqueline 1981. Deux prospections historiques au sud-Yémen. Raydān, 4: 205-248. |
CIAS: ii, 167-168, photo | Beeston, Alfred F.L., Pirenne, Jacqueline and Robin, Christian J. 1977-1986. Corpus des inscriptions et antiquités sud-arabes: Vol. I (1977): Tome 1. Inscriptions. Tome 2. Antiquités; Vol. II (1986): Le Musée d’Aden. Tome 1. Inscriptions. Tome 2. Antiquités. Louvain: Peeters. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres] |
Drewes 2003: 120 | Drewes, Abraham J. 2003. The meaning of Sabaean mkrb, facts and fiction. Semitica, 51: 93-125. |