Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Southern Middle Sabaic | ||||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||||
Writing technique | Incision | ||||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Construction text - fragmentary |
The photo in CIH refers to Langer's copy of the last three lines, retouched by Müller, David H. |
3 | [.]ẓhr (Minardi). |
4 | Minardi's reading at the beginning. |
5 | mẓlqn (Glaser in Hommel 1889: 660-662), Mẓlfn as a toponym (Schaffer), mẓll "baldacchino" (Minardi); Ḏmrm as a toponym (Minardi). |
6 | this is one of the earliest occurrences of the plural form mʾtm. According to Stein (2003 a: 108) it must be considered as an innovation which from the southern himyaritic inscriptions has spread over the whole Sabaic. |
English | |
1 [... ...] 2 [... ...] 3 [... ...] the tribe Mhʾnfm ... (?) 4 [... ...] and all its stone work, its lay-out and its two door leaves from foundation to top, and their field (?) Lgmm with three roofs from foundation to top [... ...] 5 [... ...] their tomb Lʾymm in the covered structure Ḏmrm, by the help and the power of their Lord ʿṯtr S²rqn and their gods ʿṯtr ḏ-Gwftm Master of ʿlm, Bs²r and their ʾs²ms¹, and by the help of their two lords Ys¹rm Yhnʿm and his son 6 S²mr Yhrʿs², the two kings of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān, and by the help of their two tribes Mhʾnfm and Ẓhrm, and in the month ḏu-Mhltn of the year three hundred eighty-five of Mbḥḍ ʾbḥḍ. |
Support type | Inscription on architectural structure |
Material | Stone |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Yakār |
Ancient site | Ygrn |
Geographical area | Dhamār |
Country | Yemen |
Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
Notes | Nowadays the stone, in about two thirds of its original length, is reemployed upside down into the wall of the mosque at Yakār. |
Link to site record |
Schaffer 1972: 50-53 | Schaffer, Brigitte 1972. Sabäische Inschriften aus verschiedenen Fundorten. Sammlung Eduard Glaser. 7. (Sitzungsberichte der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 282/1). Vienna: Böhlaus in Komm. |
Minardi 1973: 283-284 | Minardi, Giovanna 1973. Note sudarabiche. Annali dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli, 33/2: 283-285. |
Müller, Walter W. 2010: 33 | Müller, Walter W. 2010. Sabäische Inschriften nach Ären datiert. Bibliographie, Texte und Glossar. (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission, 53). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. |
Hommel 1889 | Hommel, Fritz 1889. Ueber das Wort Wein im Südsemitischen und insbesondere über die sabaïsche Inschrift Glaser n. 12. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 43: 653-663. |
Stein 2003 a | Stein, Peter 2003. Untersuchungen zur Phonologie und Morphologie des Sabäischen. (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 3). Rahden: Marie Leidorf GmbH / Westf.: Marie Leidorf GmbH. |