Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Measure of letters | 3.5 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
The typology is peculiar: before the dedicatory verb hqny, there is the verb s²ʾm. |
English | |
1 Bnʾl Yhṣbḥ, of the family S¹ḫymm, bought this 2 inscription and dedicated it to Tʾlb, Lord of Kbdm. |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 34, w. 66, th. 15 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Shibām al-Ghirās / Shibām Sukhaym |
Ancient site | S²bmm |
Geographical area | Banī Ḥushaysh |
Country | Yemen |
Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple Kbdm of Tʾlb |
Link to site record |
Bauer and Lundin 1998: 13, fig. 70 | 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] |