Language | Ancient South Arabian » Qatabanic » Central Qatabanic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Construction text | ||
Royal inscription | Yes |
4 | the letter r in ṣyr is engraved twice. |
5 | the letter r in hgr is engraved twice. |
9 | previously, we thought that wb was a mistaken repetition of the scribe, instead of a god’s name: Wb. But some inscriptions of the Museum of the University of Aden (CSAI III, 10 =UAM 212) confirm the existence of a god Wb. |
English | |
1 Ydʿʾb Ḏbyn Yhnʿm, 2 son of S²hr, mukarrib of Qatabān, and of the children of ʿm and of Awsān 3 and of Kḥd and of Dhs¹m and of Tbnw, the first born of ʾnby and Ḥwkm, 4 the one of ʾmr and S²mr, built and walled and raised and restored the city wall and the to- 5 wers of the town ʿbr entirely made of stone, wood and sandstone from foundation 6 to top, during the war against the Ḥaḍramawt, through the power of his tribe, ḏ-Ḍrʾ, and their settlers; 7 by ʿṯtr and by ʿm and by ʾnby and by ḏt Ṣntm and by ḏt Ẓh- 8 rn and by ḏt Rḥbn and by the gods of Rḍḥm and by Blw ḏ-Rymn and 9 by Wb ḏ-Rḍḥm and by ḏt Ḥmym, the divinity of R- 10 ḍḥm. |
9 | the Robin's hypothesis that ʿṯtr, following ḏt Ḥmym, was a substantive is here accepted (see Robin 2012: 338). |
Support type | Inscription on architectural structure » Walls |
Material | Stone |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Ḥuwaydar |
Ancient site | ʿbr |
Geographical area | Wādī Ḍura' |
Country | Yemen |
Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
Archaeological context | : City walls |
Link to site record |
Pirenne 1981: 226-227, pl. XII | Pirenne, Jacqueline 1981. Deux prospections historiques au sud-Yémen. Raydān, 4: 205-248. |
Jamme 1987: 40-42 | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1987. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe XV. Washington. 2019/07/23; https://cuislandora.wrlc.org/islandora/object/cuislandora%3A203057#page/1/mode/1up. [Privately printed] |