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 |
2 | Robin translates Bʾrs²s²m and ʾḥfym as two names of buildings. |
English | |
1 Tbʿm Yhʿn built and completed his house Yʿrm in the year eighty-five of the years, 2 after the pest of their town Grw and the town Grw was struck by the pest in the year eighty-one. He excavated 3 and built in ʾrs²s²m and ʾḥyfm, when there was a war between the king of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān and the king of 4 Ḥaḍramawt and the king of Qatabān and when there was the infection in all the lands and the wells of the wādī Mhrm: ʾl- 5 ḥy, Tqyn, S¹hmym, Kbbʾry, Ḥs²t and Thmm. He built in a warehouse, the deposit of vegetables, harvest and crops. |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Unknown |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | wādī al-Ḥijla |
Country | Yemen |
Link to site record |
Robin 1992 c: 219-224, figs 3-4 | Robin, Christian J. 1992. Guerre et épidémie dans les royaumes d'Arabie du Sud. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres: 219-224. |
Müller, Walter W. 2010: 12 | Müller, Walter W. 2010. Sabäische Inschriften nach Ären datiert. Bibliographie, Texte und Glossar. (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission, 53). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. |