Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Early Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Script cursus | Boustrophedon | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Construction text - fragmentary |
English | |
1 [... ...] qyn of Ṣrwḥ, son of ʾbʾmr, and the ʾqyn of Ṣrwḥ 2 built their tomb Ygr with full ownership rights [... ...] 3 by ʿṯtr the Patron and by S¹mhʿly and by [... ...] |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Ṣirwāḥ-Khawlān |
Ancient site | Ṣrwḥ |
Geographical area | Ṣirwāḥ |
Country | Yemen |
Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
Archaeological context | Funerary context: Tomb Ygr |
Notes | The stone is reemployed in the wall of a tower. |
Link to site record |
Nebes 2009: 274-275, 278 (fig. 2) | Nebes, Norbert 2009. Ein Erlaß des Gottes ʾAlmaqah zum Schutze der Grabanlagen in Ṣirwāḥ. Pages 267-278 in Werner Arnold, Michael Jursa, Walter W. Müller and Stephan Procházka (eds). Philologisches und Historisches zwischen Anatolien und Sokotra. Analecta Semitica In memoriam Alexander Sima. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. |