Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic |
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian |
Script typology | Monumental writing |
Writing technique | Relief |
1 | RES, at the beginning: [... ... byt-hmw W]trn. RES, at the end: byt ʿṣ[... ...], while Robin 1977: ʾḥt ʿs²(r)[... ...] (reading confirmed thanks to the recent photo by S. Rijziger). |
2 | Possible integration on the basis of RES 4994: w-[Ṣdq Yhṭl bny Hmdn]. |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 45, w. 25 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Nāʿiṭ |
Ancient site | Nʿṭm |
Geographical area | Rayda |
Country | Yemen |
Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
Notes | The stone is now reemployed in the outside wall of the village mosque (thanks to S. Rijziger for the information). |
Link to site record |
Ryckmans, Gonzague 1939 a: 106, (facsimile) | Ryckmans, Gonzague 1939. Inscriptions sud-arabes. Cinquième série. Le Muséon, 52: 51-112. |
Nāmī 1943: 52-53 | Nāmī, Khalīl Y. 1943. Našr nuqūš sāmīyya qadīma min ǧanūb bilād al-ʿarab wa-šarḥu-hā. al-Qāhira: al-Maṭbaʿa al-ʿIlmī al-Faransī li-l-Āṯār al-Šarqiyya. |
Grjaznevič 1978: 21, fig. 8 | Grjaznevič, Petr A. 1978. Materiali ekspedicii P.A. Grjaznevičia 1966-1967 gg. Južnaja Aravija. Pamjiatniki Drevnej Istorii i Kultury. 1. Moscow: Glavnaja redakzija vostočnoj literatury. |
Robin 1977 a: 362 | Robin, Christian J. 1977. Le pays de Hamdān et Ḫawlān Quḍāʾa (Nord-Yémen) avant l'Islam. (Université Pantheon-Sorbonne, Paris I). |