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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
Language Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Southern Middle Sabaic
Alphabet Ancient South Arabian
Script typology Monumental writing
Writing technique Incision
Chronology
Textual typology Legal text - fragmentary (conjectural)
TEXT marker
1 [... ...] 2 [... ...] bytm bytm w[... ...] 3 [... ...](wm) ẓyt-hw w-kwn ḏn wftn (b)-m[... ...] 4 [... ...](s¹)ʾl Tʾlb bʿl Brrn w-(b)n k[... ...] 5 [... ...](t)m s²ʿbn ḏ-t(s¹)ʾlw b-ʿm [... ...] 6 [... ...]
Apparatus 2 At the beginning: Garbini reads [... ...]tm klb[...]bytm, Lundin [... ...]l-s¹ʿd [.....] bytm. At the end: Garbini reads w(f)[... ...]. 3 At the beginning: Garbini reads w-mẓyt-hw, but the divisor after the letter m is clearly visible on Grjaznevič's photo. 4 At the end: Garbini reads ʾ instead of k. 5 At the end: Garbini reads also tʾ[... ...].
TRANSLATIONSEnglish 1 [... ...]
2 [... ...] house by house [... ...]
3 [... ...] and his (?), this wtf-document was in [... ...]
4 [... ...] Tʾlb Lord of Brrn asked [... ...]
5 [... ...] the tribe, which they sought from [Him ... ...]
2 bytm bytm: "house by house" or "each house separately" (Beeston 1972).
Beeston 1972 b : 396Beeston, Alfred F.L. 1972. Sabaean Marginalia. Annali dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli , 32/3: 394-400.
OBJECT INFORMATION ORIGIN AND PROVENANCEProvenance Modern site Ẓafār Ancient site Ẓfr Geographical area Ẓafār Country Yemen Found Reemployed. In modern times Link to site record
BIBLIOGRAPHYGarbini 1970 b : 544, pl. XXXV/eGarbini, Giovanni 1970. Antichità yemenite II. Annali dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli , 30/4: 537-548. Grjaznevič 1978 : 37-38, fig. 45Grjaznevič, Petr A. 1978. Materiali ekspedicii P.A. Grjaznevičia 1966-1967 gg . Južnaja Aravija. Pamjiatniki Drevnej Istorii i Kultury . 1. Moscow: Glavnaja redakzija vostočnoj literatury.