Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Minuscule writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Prayer |
1 | ʾlmqhw (ḏ-)ys²y(m)n (editors). |
3 | [bn] (editors). |
English | |
1 May ʾlmqh, the Lord of (the temple) S²bʿn, grant (an oracular decision) to 2 His servant Tbʿkrb concerning the decision about his two sons 3 Ġḍbm and Ṯwrm, sons of 4 (the clan) Mqrm, (in) the month ḏ-ʿṯtr. And 5 therefrom he will seek luck. |
Stein 2006 b: 187 | Stein, Peter 2006. The Ancient South Arabian minuscule inscriptions on wood. A new genre of pre-Islamic epigraphy. Jaarbericht van het vooraziatisch-egyptisch Genootschap "Ex Oriente Lux", 39: 181-199. |
Deposit | Ṣanʿāʾ, University Museum, A-40-3 |
Support type | Stick |
Material | Wood |
Measures | h. 2.5, l. 5, th. 2.5 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | as-Sawdāʾ |
Ancient site | Ns²n |
Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī al-Buhayra |
Country | Yemen |
Link to site record |
Ryckmans, Jacques, Müller, Walter W. and ʿAbdallāh 1994: 66-67 pls 16/A-B | Ryckmans, Jacques, Müller, Walter W. and ʿAbdallāh, Yūsuf M. 1994. Textes du Yémen antique inscrits sur bois (with an English Summary). (Publications de l'Institut orientaliste de Louvain, 43). Louvain: Université Catholique de Louvain, Institut Orientaliste. |
Stein 2006 b: 187 | Stein, Peter 2006. The Ancient South Arabian minuscule inscriptions on wood. A new genre of pre-Islamic epigraphy. Jaarbericht van het vooraziatisch-egyptisch Genootschap "Ex Oriente Lux", 39: 181-199. |