Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Southern Middle Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Measure of letters | 5 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Construction text - fragmentary |
3 | To be noted the spelling of the relative pronoun z instead of ḏ. |
3-4 | s¹bʾ (Robin and Bron). |
English | |
1 ʾlṯwb he of S²rḥʾl and his son Ms²ʾm[.] 2 descendants of S³hmn built and completed their house Ys³f, the house that 3 the army of Yhqm king of Sabaʾ burnt down, when 4 he brought about hostilities against the tribes of ḏu-Raydān in a war (and) when they were driven out (from) 5 the cities of ʿlt; they restored their house by the help of their god 6 S²yʾn Master of Ṯmr and their solar deities and . 7 [......] |
4 | the verb hwḍʾw could also mean "be destroyed" (Beeston et al. 1982: 156). |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 40, w. 70 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Banī Bakr |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | al-Ḥadd |
Country | Yemen |
Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
Archaeological context | Urban context: Private house Ys³f |
Link to site record |
Bāfaqīh and Bāṭāyiʿ 1988: 69-70, pl. 5 | Bāfaqīh, Muḥammad ʿA. and Bāṭāyiʿ, Aḥmed 1988. Nuqūš min al-Ḥadd. Raydān, 5: 61-80. [Arabic section] |
Robin and Bron 1979: 137-142, pl. VIII | Robin, Christian J. and Bron, François 1979. Deux inscriptions sudarabique du Haut-Yafiʿ (Sud Yémen). Semitica, 29: 137-145. |