Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Southern Middle Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Construction text |
The author of the text is the same author of YMN 9, YMN 10, MAFRAY-al-Miʿsāl 4. In this last text the same king of Ḥaḍramawt is also mentioned. |
3 | mwqrt is attested in YMN 13, 5. A reading mwfrt is also possible. |
English | |
1 Nṣrm Yhḥmd, of the family Mʿhr and Ḫwln 2 qyl of Rdmn and Ḫwln, planted, repaired, completed his 3 vineyard ʾġnm, which is at the entrance of the city Qḏḥt; he planted in that vineyard 4 ten thousand rows of vines and two irrigation systems Tgb and Tgyb and all 5 [... ...] the vineyard ʾġnm, with the help and the power of his lord ʾlʿz Ylṭ, the king of Ḥḍrmt, 6 the son of ʿmḏḫr, and with the help of ʿṯtr S²rqn, S¹yn ḏ-ʾlm, ʿm 7 ḏ-Mrqbm, with the might of their tribe Rdmn and Ḫwln, according to 8 ʾnby in the year one hundred forty of the years, for Ḥḍrmt 9 is (corresponding to) the second year of ʾḏrm, of the family Ḥbylm. |
Support type | Rock inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 40, w. 70 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | al-Ṭaffa |
Ancient site | unknown |
Geographical area | wādī al-Madar |
Country | Yemen |
Found | In situ |
Archaeological context | Agricultural irrigation context |
Link to site record |
al-Ḥājj 2016 b | al-Ḥājj, Muḥammad ʿAlī 2016 (1437). Naqsh sabʾī jadīd min mudīriyyat al-Ṭaffa muḥāfaẓat al-Bayḍāʾ muʾarraẖ bi-ʿahd Ilīʿazz Yalaṭ bin ʿAmmī Ḏaẖar, malim Ḥaḍramawt. Ḥājj-al-Ṭaffa 1 (New Sabaean Inscription from Al-ṭafah area, Al-Baidaa governorate dated to the reign of the king ʼl ʽz ylṭ bn ʽmṯḫr, king of Ḥaḍramawt. Ḥaj-Altafah 1). Majallat al-Siyāḥa wal-Āṯār, 28/2: 99-121. |