Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Late Sabaic | ||||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||||
Writing technique | Relief | ||||
Measure of letters | 3 | ||||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Construction text |
1 | [Yḥ]md is a likely integration. |
8 | mʾtm is written in small size on the lower edge of the stone. |
English | |
1 [..]md and his wife Mrṯdt 2 and their son ʿfzlm, assistants to the 3 king, construted, laid the foundations and completed 4 their gyrt-construction Tkrb, by the help of ʾln, 5 master of heaven, and with the help of their lord 6 Ḏrʾʾmr ʾymn, in the month of ḏ-Ḫrf‒ 7 n of the year four hundred and 8 sixty-four. |
4 | Possible interpretions of the word gyrt are "construction to produce plaster" (<GYR) or, less likely, "guest house" (<GWR). |
Prioletta 2012 | Prioletta, Alessia 2012. A new monotheistic inscription from the Military Museum of Ṣanʿāʾ. Pages 315-332 in Alexander V. Sedov (ed.). New research in archaeology and epigraphy of South Arabia and its neighbors. Proceedings of the "Rencontres Sabéennes 15" held in Moscow, May 25th –27th, 2011. Moscow: The State Museum of Oriental Art. |
Deposit | Ṣanʿāʾ, Military Museum, B 8457 |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 40, w. 49, th. 7 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Unknown |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | Unknown |
Country | Unknown |
Notes | On the basis of some linguistic and cultural data, we can maintain that the text originates somewhere between Ṣanʿāʾ and Ẓafār, perhaps from the latter city. |
Link to site record |
Prioletta 2012: 315-332, fig. 1 | Prioletta, Alessia 2012. A new monotheistic inscription from the Military Museum of Ṣanʿāʾ. Pages 315-332 in Alexander V. Sedov (ed.). New research in archaeology and epigraphy of South Arabia and its neighbors. Proceedings of the "Rencontres Sabéennes 15" held in Moscow, May 25th –27th, 2011. Moscow: The State Museum of Oriental Art. |