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 - fragmentary |
3 | Ẓhr S¹r (Avanzini). |
English | |
1 ʾbʾns¹ and his sons ʾbs²mr, S²mr, ʾbkrb and [... ...] 2 laid foundations and completed their palace Yfʿm, by the command and the help of ʿṯtr ḏ- 3 Ẓhr Ys¹r and by their tutelary deity ʿṯtr ḏ-ʾlmm and by the help of [... ...] 4 S²ddm and their brothers the banū S¹mhs¹mʿ and Ḥkrs²m and [... ...] |
Support type | Inscription on architectural structure |
Material | Stone |
Measures | w. 58, h. 28 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | al-Aqmār |
Ancient site | Ytrm |
Geographical area | Dhamār |
Country | Yemen |
Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
Notes | The stone is inserted above the door of the Saint tomb at al-Aqmār. |
Link to site record |
Avanzini 1985: 93-94, pls 15/1 and 17 | Avanzini, Alessandra 1985. Problemi storici della regione di al-Ḥadāʾ nel periodo preislamico e nuove iscrizioni. Pages 53-115 in Pelio Fronzaroli (ed.). Studi Yemeniti. (Quaderni di semitistica, 14). Florence: Istituto di linguistica e di lingue orientali, Università di Firenze. |
al-Iryānī 1992: 52-71, photo | al-Iryānī, Muṭahhar 1992. Naqšāni min al-Aqmār. Dirāsāt Yamanīya, 47: 52-71. |