Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Measure of letters | 3 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Legal text - fragmentary |
3 | bynht as a proper name (G. Ryckmans). It is instead a variant of the particle byn "between". |
English | |
1 From this boundary stela and the two boundary stelae at the West of it (are) the boundary stelae of [... ...] Qtbn 2 boundary stelae that delimited the tribe of Yqhmlk and the family Brṣm [... ...] and 3 from it the family ʿrgn Gmwln, boundary stelae that mark the limit between Mqẓm, which 4 the tribe of Yqhmlk and the family Brṣm call Mwhrtn Nḫln ("the palmgrove") and the land and the cultivated land that 5 continue to grant and sell the tribe of Yqhmlk and the family Brṣm Gmwln, from the land of the palmgrove 6 Mqẓm that the tribe of Yqhmlk and the family Brṣm call Mwhrtn Nḫln ("the palmgrove") 7 from the West and from [... ...] the house and palmgrove from 8 [... ...] |
3, 5 | Gmwln is translated as "ensemble" by G. Ryckmans and Pirenne. The word, however, is found as a proper name (see e.g. RES 4127). |
Deposit | Aden, The National Museum, NAM 231=AM 206 |
Support type | Monumental stela |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 30, w. 22, th. 2.5 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Unknown |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | Unknown |
Country | Unknown |
Archaeological context | Agricultural irrigation context |
Notes | Probably from the region of Maʾrib (cf. Sima 2000: 229 and Mazzini 2011: 131-132). |
Link to site record |
Ryckmans, Gonzague 1949 a: 60-61 | Ryckmans, Gonzague 1949. Inscriptions sud-arabes. Huitième série. Le Muséon, 62: 55-124. |
CIAS: ii, 181-184, photo | Beeston, Alfred F.L., Pirenne, Jacqueline and Robin, Christian J. 1977-1986. Corpus des inscriptions et antiquités sud-arabes: Vol. I (1977): Tome 1. Inscriptions. Tome 2. Antiquités; Vol. II (1986): Le Musée d’Aden. Tome 1. Inscriptions. Tome 2. Antiquités. Louvain: Peeters. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres] |