Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Southern Middle Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Measure of letters | 3 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Construction text |
The inscription dates back to the 1st c. AD, when the Hṣbḥ had separated from the kingdom of Qatabān. Cf. the Sabaic inscription MQ-Ḥaṣī 8, mentioning Hṣbḥ and S²bʿn, dated to 49 of the era of Nbṭm ḏ-Ḫrf (approximately of 14 AD). |
1 | Note the Qatabanic relative pronoun ḏtw. |
2 | The editors note that S²bʿn is most probably to be distinguished from the homonym family attested in the Central Qatabanic inscriptions. |
French | |
1 Sayyidum Marith, Sharaḥʾil et ʿAbdʿamm Sayyid, du lignage de 2 Haṣbaḥ et Shabʿān, ont creusé, aplani et plâtré ce réservoir, réservoir 3 d'où ils puisent l'eau pour leur vigne Ḥababum et la terre dont ils ont entouré 4 cette vigne Ḥababum, avec la faveur de ʿAttar Shariqān et l'aide de leurs shams, 5 des divinités tutélaires de leurs maisons, de ʿAttar dhū-Yāfiʿī, de Saḥar dhū-Kawkabān et de 6 ʿAmm dhū-Buṭmum, et l'aide de leurs seigneurs Marthadum Yashʿar et Saʿadʿamm Yaḥmad, 7 les deux qayls de Maḍḥī, et par le faveur de leurs vassaux, les vassaux des banū Shabʿān. |
2 | For the meaning of the word rhṭ, see the commentary by the editors. |
Gajda, Arbach and Bron 1998: 103 | Gajda, Iwona, Arbach, Mounir and Bron, François 1998. Une nouvelle inscription sudarabique des Haṣbaḥides. Semitica 48: 101-108. |
Deposit | Ṣanʿāʾ, The National Museum |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 33, w. 61.5 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Bahāʾ |
Ancient site | unknown |
Geographical area | Lawdar |
Country | Yemen |
Archaeological context | Agricultural irrigation context: Cistern |
Notes | The stone was placed in front of a modern private house. The owner told he had found it during agricultural works near an ancient cistern close to the wādī bed. |
Link to site record |
Gajda, Arbach and Bron 1998: 101-108, fig. 2 | Gajda, Iwona, Arbach, Mounir and Bron, François 1998. Une nouvelle inscription sudarabique des Haṣbaḥides. Semitica 48: 101-108. |
Robin 2005-2006 a | Robin, Christian J. 2005-2006. Les banū Haṣbaḥ, princes de la commune de Maḍḥām. Arabia. Revue de Sabéologie, 3: 31-110. |