Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic |
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian |
Script typology | Monumental writing |
Writing technique | Incision |
1 | The text is too fragmentary to interpret the last two letters of the line. Jamme and Lundin read also a final l. |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Alabaster |
Measures | h. 20, w. 45 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Ṭayba |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | wādī Ḍahr |
Country | Yemen |
Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
Notes | Reemployed above the entrance of the mosque of Ṭaybah. |
Link to site record |
Jamme 1955 e: 116, pl. 2 | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1955. Inscriptions sud-arabes de la collection Ettore Rossi. Rivista degli Studi Orientali, 30: 103-130. |
Grjaznevič 1978: 45 | Grjaznevič, Petr A. 1978. Materiali ekspedicii P.A. Grjaznevičia 1966-1967 gg. Južnaja Aravija. Pamjiatniki Drevnej Istorii i Kultury. 1. Moscow: Glavnaja redakzija vostočnoj literatury. |
Robin 1982 a: 112, pl. 68/a | Robin, Christian J. 1982. Les hautes-terres du Nord-Yémen avant l'Islam. (2 vols), (Uitgaven van het Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Instituut te Istanbul, 50). Istanbul: Nederlands Historisch-Archaelogisch Instituut te Istanbul. |