Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic |
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian |
Script typology | Monumental writing |
Measure of letters | 3.5 |
Textual typology | Legal text - fragmentary |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 28, w. 45, th. 24 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Shibām al-Ghirās / Shibām Sukhaym |
Ancient site | S²bmm |
Geographical area | Banī Ḥushaysh |
Country | Yemen |
Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
Notes | From the village of al-Gīrās, near Shibām Sukhaym. Reemployed in the southern wall of a well near the house of al-Ḥājj ʿAlī Ṣāliḥ Ḥamīd. |
Link to site record |
Bauer and Lundin 1998: 23 | Bauer, Gleb M. and Lundin (=Loundine), Avraam G. 1998. Pamjatniki Drevnej Istorii i Kultury. Južnaja Aravija. Part 2: Epigraficheskie pamjiatniki drevnego Jemena. 2. St.-Petersburg: Zentr "Peterburgskoe vostokovedenie". [Akademia nauk, Institut Vostokovedenija, Sankt-Peterburgskiy filial] |