Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Early Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Chronology |
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ʿmkrb fqḍn ḏʿbn w-ʿmʾns¹ fqḍ nṭn mlʾkm (Garbini). | |
It is not sure whether Mlʾkm is a patronymic or a name of group. |
English | |
1 ʿmkrb, fqḍn of ʿbn, and ʿmʾns¹, fqḍn, son of Mlʾkm. |
English | |
1 ʿmkrb, the "appointed" for flood, and ʿmʾns¹, the assistant-"appointed" for distribution (?). |
Garbini 1988 | Garbini, Giovanni 1988. The inscriptions of Si'b al-'Aql, Al-Gafnah and Yala/Ad-Durayb. Pages 21-40 in Alessandro de Maigret (ed.). The Sabaean archaeological complex in the Wādī Yalā (Eastern Hawlān at-Tiyāl, Yemen Arab Republic). A preliminary report. (Istituto italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente. Centro studi e scavi archeologici. Reports and memoirs, 21). Rome: IsMEO. |
Support type | Rock inscription |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Shiʿb al-ʿAql |
Ancient site | Dnm (?) / ʾrydy (?) |
Geographical area | Wādī Yalā |
Country | Yemen |
Found | In situ |
Link to site record |
Garbini 1988: 28-29, pl. 41 | Garbini, Giovanni 1988. The inscriptions of Si'b al-'Aql, Al-Gafnah and Yala/Ad-Durayb. Pages 21-40 in Alessandro de Maigret (ed.). The Sabaean archaeological complex in the Wādī Yalā (Eastern Hawlān at-Tiyāl, Yemen Arab Republic). A preliminary report. (Istituto italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente. Centro studi e scavi archeologici. Reports and memoirs, 21). Rome: IsMEO. |
Jamme 1989: 73-79 | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1989. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe XVII. Washington. 2019/07/23; https://cuislandora.wrlc.org/islandora/object/cuislandora%3A202034#page/1/mode/1up. [Privately printed] |