Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Northern Middle Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Construction text - fragmentary |
5-6 | Robin proposes to integrate: ... ... w-ʾlʾlt Hrm]m w-ʾlʾlt ʾ[mrm |
English | |
1 [...] son of S²fyqm, Tws¹ʾyn, Amirite, founded and constructed [... ...] 2 connected (?) and excavated Ys¹m with the canal of the plain of the city of Haram [... ...] 3 which lies next (?) to the canal and the tower, and his parcel by ḏt [... ...] 4 ... and the land that is under the rule (?) of the king of Sabaʾ, in the surroudings of Wblm [... ...]; by ḏ- 5 S¹mwy and His god Hlʾly, by Ydʿs¹mhw, Mtbnṭyn [... ...] and the gods of Haram 6 and the gods of the ʾmr [... ...]; 7 he committed his inscriptions and the dam [... ...] |
4 | According to Beeston (1979 b: 96), ʾrḍ may be a broken plural (cf. Ar. ʾarāḍī) and the following verb ytlwn an imperfect feminine. Stein (2003 a: 76, fn. 245.) thinks instead that ʾrḍ is a collective noun. |
Beeston 1979 b | Beeston, Alfred F.L. 1979. Studies in Sabaic Lexicography I. Raydān, 2: 89-100. |
Stein 2003 a | Stein, Peter 2003. Untersuchungen zur Phonologie und Morphologie des Sabäischen. (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 3). Rahden: Marie Leidorf GmbH / Westf.: Marie Leidorf GmbH. |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Kharibat Hamdān |
Ancient site | Hrm |
Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī Madhab |
Country | Yemen |
Archaeological context | Agricultural irrigation context: Dam or retaining structure |
Link to site record |
Robin 1992 a: 118-119 | Robin, Christian J. 1992. Inabbaʾ, Haram, al-Kāfir, Kamna et al-Ḥarāshif. Fasc. A: Les documents. Fasc. B: Les planches. Inventaire des inscriptions sudarabiques. 1. Paris: de Boccard / Rome: Herder. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres; Istituto italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente] |