DASI: Digital Archive for the Study of pre-islamic arabian Inscriptions: Epigraph details

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

Language	Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Southern Middle Sabaic
Alphabet	Ancient South Arabian
Script typology	Monumental writing
Measure of letters	3.7

GENERAL NOTES

The inscription comes from the same site as CIH 40.

TEXT

Apparatus

1	The traces of the last two signs may be those of /m/ and /ʿ/. The name of the god S¹mʿ is however unexpected in the region of Maḏāb.

TRANSLATIONS

English
1 ... [of] (the month) ʾbhy. By ʾlmqh and by S¹[..].

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support type	Stone inscription
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Provenance

Modern site	Madhāb (Surroundings)
Ancient site	Unknown
Geographical area	Ḍūrān
Country	Yemen
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Tschinkowitz 1969: 10	Tschinkowitz, Helga 1969. Kleine Fragmente. Sammlung Eduard Glaser. 6. (Sitzungsberichte der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 261/4). Vienna: Böhlau in Kommission.
Beeston 1956: 12, 17	Beeston, Alfred F.L. 1956. Epigraphic South Arabian calendars and dating. London: Luzac.