Language | Ancient South Arabian » Qatabanic » Central Qatabanic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Measure of letters | 4 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Construction text |
English | |
1 Ṯwybm son of Ys²rḥʿm and Ṣbḥm and Hwfʿm of the family 2 Mhṣnʿm purchased and gained legal possession of his house Yfs² and all its lower rooms 3 and its upper rooms and its inner rooms and its roofed hall all in its entirety, 4 according to the orders of ʾnby; by ʿṯtr and by ʿm and by ʾnby and by Wrfw 5 ḏ-Lfn and by ḏt Ṣntm and by ḏt Ẓhrn and by his lord S²- 6 hr Ygl Yhrgb son of Hwfʿm Yhnʿm king of Qa- 7 tabān and by Frʿkrb ḏ-Ḏrḥn uncle and regent for S²hr. |
Support type | Inscription on architectural structure |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 39, w. 73.5 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Hajar Kuḥlān |
Ancient site | Tmnʿ |
Geographical area | Wādī Bayḥān |
Country | Yemen |
Found | In situ |
Archaeological context | Urban context: Private house Yfs² |
Notes | The inscription is now detached and placed on the ground. |
Link to site record |
Jamme 1958 b: 187-189, pl. 117 | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1958. Inscriptions Related to the House Yafash in Timnaʿ. Pages 183-198 in Richard LeBaron Bowen and Frank P. Albright (eds). Archaeological Discoveries in South Arabia. With foreword by Wendell Phillips. (Publications of the American Foundation for the Study of Man, 2). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press. |