Language | Ancient South Arabian » Qatabanic » Marginal Qatabanic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Measure of letters | about 4.5 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
The text has been classified as a dedicatory inscription because the verb hʿs²qw means "to do for the god", then "to offer". |
English | |
1 Ms²ʿrm and Ḥẓyn those of 2 Hṣbḥ and Qyln Ml made an offering 3 to their god and their lord 4 ʿm ḏ-ʿḏbtm lord of N- 5 ʿmn of a slab for their safety 6 and the safety of their dependents and their houses 7 and of all what they possessed. |
5 | The word bḥtn is translated as "votive object" by Avanzini. |
Avanzini 2004 a: 521 | 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 | Ṣanʿāʾ, The National Museum, YM 1689 |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 39, w. 25, th. 6 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Ḥaṣī |
Ancient site | Ḥ[ṣy] / Ḥ[ṣym] |
Geographical area | al-Bayḍāʾ |
Country | Yemen |
Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of ʿm ḏ-ʿḏbtm bʿl Nʿmn |
Link to site record |
Bāfaqīh and Robin 1979 b: 11-23, photo | Bāfaqīh, Muḥammad ʿA. and Robin, Christian J. 1979. Naqš Asbahī min Ḫaṣī. Raydān, 2: 11-23. [Arabic section] |
Avanzini 2004 a | Avanzini, Alessandra 2004. Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions I-III. Qatabanic, Marginal Qatabanic, Awsanite Inscriptions. (Arabia Antica, 2). Pisa: Edizioni Plus-Università di Pisa. |
Robin 2005-2006 a | Robin, Christian J. 2005-2006. Les banū Haṣbaḥ, princes de la commune de Maḍḥām. Arabia. Revue de Sabéologie, 3: 31-110. |