Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Southern Middle Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Construction text |
English | |
1 ʾḥmd Nhfn ibn ʾwḥl, Kbdn and Ṣrrn built, constructed 2 and restored their covered cistern and the whole enclosed land, the threshing floor, the channels and the work 3 which are in front and upon their valley Gnn; by the help and the command 4 of their lord ʿmdn Byn Yhqbḍ, king of Sabaʾ and ḏū-Raydān, 5 and by the help of his father Nmrm ibn 6 ʾwḥl, Kb- 7 dn and Ṣrrn. |
Support type | Inscription on architectural structure |
Material | Stone |
Link to object record |
Modern site | dhī-aṣ-Ṣawlaʿ al-ʿUlyà |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | Ẓafār |
Country | Yemen |
Found | Reemployed |
Archaeological context | Agricultural irrigation context |
Notes | Robin states that the inscription is reemployed but it is not clear whether this be happened in ancient or modern times. |
Link to site record |
Robin 1991: 171-173, figs 7-10 | Robin, Christian J. 1991. ʿAmdān Bayyin Yuhaqbid, roi de Sabaʾ et de dū-Raydān. Pages 167-205 in Études sud-arabes. Recueil offert à Jacques Ryckmans. (Publications de l'Institut Orientaliste de Louvain, 39). Louvain-La-Neuve: Université Catholique de Louvain, Institut Orientaliste. |