Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic |
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian |
Script typology | Monumental writing |
Writing technique | Incision |
Textual typology | Construction text - fragmentary |
6 | The reading w-mn ḏn-mn is uncertain. P. Stein 2003: 151, note 140: w-mn ḏ-mn. |
English | |
1 [... ...] built, laid foundations and completed [... ...] 2 [... ...] against who may damage [... ...] 3 [... ...] their brothers, their children and their sons and their descendants [... ...] 4 [... ...] and granted him the quarter, for the family Rymm a quarter and for [... ...] 5 [... ...] mrbym. And these men swore an oath to ʿṯtr [... ...] 6 [... ...] the tomb that these people bought and whosoever by a purchase [... ...]. |
5 | mrbym: "Māribite" (?) or a participle 0/2 from rby (G. Ryckmans 1952). |
Ryckmans, Gonzague 1952: ii, 37 | Ryckmans, Gonzague 1952. Epigraphical texts. Ahmed Fakhry, An archaeological Journey to Yemen (March-May 1947). ii. Cairo: Government Press. |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 37, w. 43 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Maʾrib |
Ancient site | Mryb / Mrb |
Geographical area | Maʾrib |
Country | Yemen |
Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
Notes | Reemployed upside-down in a wall of the modern village. |
Link to site record |
Fakhry 1952: i, 105, n. 112, fig. 50 | Fakhry, Ahmed 1952. An archaeological Journey to Yemen (March-May 1947). (3 vols), Cairo: Government Press. |
Ryckmans, Gonzague 1952: ii, 37 | Ryckmans, Gonzague 1952. Epigraphical texts. Ahmed Fakhry, An archaeological Journey to Yemen (March-May 1947). ii. Cairo: Government Press. |
Stein 2003 a: 151, fn. 140 | 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. |