Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Measure of letters | 1; 1.3 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Construction text - fragmentary |
English | |
1 Ynʿm and Yls³b and their sons [... ... ] 2 sons of ʾws¹krb subjects [of the family S¹ḫymm built ... ...] 3 their house Yfʿm. And they commited their house to the protection of ʾ[ṯtr S²rqn]. |
Bauer and Lundin 1998: 126, fig. 266. | Bauer, Gleb M. and Lundin (=Loundine), Avraam G. 1998. Pamjatniki Drevnej Istorii i Kultury. Južnaja Aravija. Part 2: Epigraficheskie pamjiatniki drevnego Jemena. 2. St.-Petersburg: Zentr "Peterburgskoe vostokovedenie". [Akademia nauk, Institut Vostokovedenija, Sankt-Peterburgskiy filial] |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h.31, w. 66, th. 20. |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Banū Miʿsār/Maʿsār |
Ancient site | unknown |
Geographical area | Nihm |
Country | Yemen |
Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
Notes | Reemployed in a house in the village of Banū Miʿṣār. |
Link to site record |
Modern site | Quṭra |
Ancient site | Mṭrtm |
Geographical area | Nihm |
Country | Yemen |
Link to site record |
Bauer and Lundin 1998: 126, fig. 266 | Bauer, Gleb M. and Lundin (=Loundine), Avraam G. 1998. Pamjatniki Drevnej Istorii i Kultury. Južnaja Aravija. Part 2: Epigraficheskie pamjiatniki drevnego Jemena. 2. St.-Petersburg: Zentr "Peterburgskoe vostokovedenie". [Akademia nauk, Institut Vostokovedenija, Sankt-Peterburgskiy filial] |
Frantsouzoff 2016: 133-134, pl. 50 | Frantsouzoff, Serguei A. 2016. Nihm. Fasc. A: Les documents. Fasc. B: Les planches. With contribution by Christian J. Robin. Inventaire des inscriptions sudarabiques. 8. Paris: De Boccard. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres; Collège de France, Laboratoire des Études Sémitiques anciennes; Académie des sciences de Russie Institut des manuscrits orientaux] |