Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Early Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Script cursus | Boustrophedon | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Dedicatory text | ||
Royal inscription | Yes |
1 | Jamme quotes erroneously ʿlmn[ḫ] "the (two) signs". |
4 | Jamme restores (b)-ʾrḫ-hw. |
English | |
1 [... ...] ʾḏnt, friend of Ydʿʾl and Yṯʿʾmr, dedicated to ʾlmqh ʿlmḫ [... ...] 2 [... ...] Ydʿʾl on the wall of Ḥfry; and he surrounded it with a wall and erected it up to its gate [... ...] 3 [... ...] his mḥt; and he dug the well of Rwym in ʾrydy and opened a road [... ...] 4 [... ...] his affairs (?) as far as "him of ʾns²mm". By ʿṯtr, ʾlmqh and ḏt Ḥmym [... ...]. |
1 | Garbini: mḥt-hw "the disappearance (?) of it". |
2 | Jamme: he will wall it and erect it for his country. |
3 | Jamme: he desired a mountain pass. |
4 | Jamme: in his undertaking in Ḏū+ʾns²amum. |
Garbini 1988: 38-39 | 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: 25-26 | 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] |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 19, w. 65+16 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Yalā |
Ancient site | Ḥfry |
Geographical area | wādī Yalā |
Country | Yemen |
Notes | Ḥfry is mentioned in the text. |
Link to site record |
Garbini 1988: 38-40, pls 53/b, 54/a-b | 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: 25-26 | 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] |