Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Measure of letters | 4 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Construction text - fragmentary |
English | |
1 [... .... and their sons] 2 Ġwṯn, S²blm and S¹ʿd[...], 3 subjects of the families Wrkn and Qrẓn, [built their house] 4 Dṯʾ with the help of ʿṯtr S²rqn and their tribe [... and] 5 with the help of their lords ʾlwfd Yḍ[ʿ ... Wrkn] 6 and Qrẓn and they committed their house [...]. |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 28, w. 62 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Shibām al-Ghirās / Shibām Sukhaym (Al-ʿAsarī, surroundings of Shibām Sukhaym) |
Ancient site | S²bmm |
Geographical area | Banī Ḥushaysh |
Country | Yemen |
Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
Archaeological context | Urban context: Private house Dṯʾ |
Notes | Reemployed in a wall of a watchtower. |
Link to site record |
Bauer and Lundin 1998: 10-11, figs 64 a-b | Bauer, Gleb M. and Lundin (=Loundine), Avraam G. 1998. Pamjatniki Drevnej Istorii i Kultury. Južnaja Aravija. Part 2: Epigraficheskie pamjiatniki drevnego Jemena. 2. St.-Petersburg: Zentr "Peterburgskoe vostokovedenie". [Akademia nauk, Institut Vostokovedenija, Sankt-Peterburgskiy filial] |