Language | Ancient South Arabian » Qatabanic » Central Qatabanic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Measure of letters | 9 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Construction text | ||
Royal inscription | Yes |
1 | integrations by Pirenne. |
English | |
1 S²hr Ġyln son of ʾbs²bm king of Qatabān and of all the children of ʿm and of Awsān and of Dhs¹m and of Tbnw, first-born of ʾnby and Ḥwkm ḏ-ʾmr and S²mr, Collector, qyn, Priest of ʿmm (or, great Priest), built and restored whole the construction and the realization 2 of the gate ḏ-S³dw and of its two bastions Ḥmrr and S²ḫb, its stone, its sandstone, its wood and its limestone[... ...] through the mobilization of Qatabān; by ʿṯtr and by ʿm and by ʾnby and by ḏt Ṣntm and by ḏt Ẓhrn. |
Avanzini 2004 a | Avanzini, Alessandra 2004. Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions I-III. Qatabanic, Marginal Qatabanic, Awsanite Inscriptions. (Arabia Antica, 2). Pisa: Edizioni Plus-Università di Pisa. |
Support type | Inscription on architectural structure |
Material | Stone |
Measures | TSb: h. 75, w. 165; RES 3881: h. 87, w. 192 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Hajar Kuḥlān |
Ancient site | Tmnʿ |
Geographical area | Wādī Bayḥān |
Country | Yemen |
Found | In situ |
Archaeological context | Urban context: City gate ḏ-S³dw |
Notes | A part of the inscription is now detached and placed on the ground. The stone block with the first half of the two lines is on the gate. |
Link to site record |
CIAS: i, 109-116, photo | Beeston, Alfred F.L., Pirenne, Jacqueline and Robin, Christian J. 1977-1986. Corpus des inscriptions et antiquités sud-arabes: Vol. I (1977): Tome 1. Inscriptions. Tome 2. Antiquités; Vol. II (1986): Le Musée d’Aden. Tome 1. Inscriptions. Tome 2. Antiquités. Louvain: Peeters. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres] |
Breton 1994 c: 117-119, 69 (plan) | Breton, Jean-François 1994. Les fortifications d'Arabie méridionale du 7e au 1er siècle avant notre ère. (Archäologische Berichte aus dem Yemen, 8). Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern. |