Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Dedicatory text - fragmentary |
1-2 | b[n Qbʿ]ṯ[m ...ʿ]—ṯt (Garbini). |
8 | Emendation suggested in Beeston et al. 1982: 30; at the end of the line, Garbini restores ml[ʾn] |
9 | k-y[zʾn] (Garbini). |
English | |
1 Rbs²ms¹m [... ...] 2 ʿṯt and ʾklm of the family 3 Qbʿṯm dedicated to their Patron 4 Wdm ḏ-Yfʿn the vinestocks 5 ḏ-Hwrn and the rented crop-land 6 [... ...] 7 the vinestocks and four 8 ibex in stone (?) [... ...] 9 in Yfʿn, as [... ...] 10 Wdm ḏ-Yfʿn in His oracle 11 (to?) his servant Rbs²ms¹m 12 of the family Qbʿṯm for [... ...] 13 these vinestocks [... ...] 14 [... ...] up to these [... ...] |
4-5, 7,13 | ʾʿmdn: cf. Beeston et al. 1982: 16. |
5 | qbl[.]: translation suggested by Beeston et al. 1982: 102. |
6 | thḏb (a verb or a noun) is probably to be related to ḎHB II "alluvial valley" rather than ḎHB I "gold, bronze". |
Beeston et al. 1982 (=SD): 16,102 | Beeston, Alfred F.L., al-Ghūl, Maḥmūd ʿA., Müller, Walter W. and Ryckmans, Jacques 1982. Sabaic Dictionary (English-French-Arabic). Dictionnaire Sabéen (anglais-français-arabe). Louvain-la-Neuve: Éditions Peeters / Beirut: Libraire du Liban. |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Ḍulaʿ |
Ancient site | Ḍlʿm |
Geographical area | Ṣanʿāʾ |
Country | Yemen |
Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
Link to site record |
Garbini 1972: 517-518, pl. II/1 | Garbini, Giovanni 1972. Iscrizioni sabee da Ḍulaʿ. Annali dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli, 32: 513-518, pl. I-II. |