Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Northern Middle Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Construction text |
Bāfaqīh edited the text as Kortler 3. Inscription dated between the 1st c. BC-1st c. AD according to Robin (2010 a: 365). |
Bāfaqīh transcribes the text on 5 lines. | |
1 | ḏ-Ġs²nm (Bāfaqīh). |
3 | Bāfaqīh does not transcribe ʾḏ. |
5-6 | ḏ-S¹m—wy (Bāfaqīh); [ḏ]-Yġ[rw] (Müller). |
English | |
1 Ġs²nm son 2 of Gnyt the 3 Ġalwanite, when 4 he built and plastered the two wells 5 of his god ḏ-S¹mwy 6 in Yġrw. |
Support type | Rock inscription |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Unknown |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | wādī Shuḍayf |
Country | Yemen |
Found | In situ |
Link to site record |
Müller, Walter W. 1978 b: 125-127, pl. VII/18 | Müller, Walter W. 1978. Sabäische Felsinschriften von der jemenitishen Grenze zur Rubʿ al-Ḫālī. Neue Ephemeris für semitische Epigraphik, 3: 113-136. |
Bāfaqīh 2001 a: 61 | Bāfaqīh, Muḥammad ʿA. 2001. Ḏū Samāwī wa-abʿād ḥarami-hi fī Šuḍayf. Raydān, 7: 55-65. |
Stein 2007: 42 | Stein, Peter 2007. Materialien zur sabäischen Dialektologie: Das Problem des amiritischen ("haramischen") Dialektes. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 157: 13-47. |
Robin 2010 a: 365 | Robin, Christian J. 2010. Ḥimyarite Kings on Coinage. Pages 357-381 in Martin Huth and Peter G. van Alfen (eds). Coinage of the Caravan Kingdoms. Studies in Ancient Arabian Monetization. New York: American Numismatic Society / New York: Oxford: Oxbow. |