ʿAqabat Buraʿ 2
Gajda, al-Hajj and Schiettecatte 2009: 177-179, figs 4-7-8
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Qatabanic » Central Qatabanic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 5 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Construction text |
TEXT
1 ʾbʿm bn Lḥyʿṯt ḏ-Rḥbtm w-Ḍbm bn ʿmkrb |
2 ḏ-ʿlz qylw s²ʿbn Mḍḥym s¹[..]ymyw [..]ʿn ḏ-Tymm |
3 ʿbd mlkn tqdmw w-ḥ[rg] s²ʿbn Rʿnn b-ʿs²q w-mbny
4 w-mwzl mnqln Brʿm [b-t](ḥ)rg mrʾ-s¹m Ydʿʾb Ḏbyn
5 [bn] S²hr mlk Q[tbn]
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 ʾbʿm, son of Lḥyʿṯt ḏ-Rḥbtm, and Ḍbm, son of ʿmkrb 2 ḏ-ʿlz, the two qylw of the tribe Mḍḥym [... ...] ḏ-Tymm 3 servant of the king directed and supervised the tribe Rʿnn during the cutting, the construction 4 and the smoothing 5 of the Brʿm pass, by the command of their lord Ydʿʾb Ḏbyn 6 son of S²hr, king of Qatabān. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Rock inscription |
| Measures | h. 21, w. 80 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | ʿAqaba Buraʿ |
| Ancient site | Brʿm |
| Geographical area | al-Bayḍāʾ |
| Country | Yemen |
| Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
| Link to site record |
CULTURAL NOTES
This is the earliest occurrence of the term qyl "prince" in a text from the southern highland. The word also appears sporadically in other contemporary inscriptions from the northern highlands, before becoming widely used from the 1st century AD onwards.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Gajda, al-Hajj and Schiettecatte 2009: 168-169, figs 7-8 | Gajda, Iwona, al-Hajj, Khaled and Schiettecatte, Jérémie 2009. Two inscriptions commemorating the construction of a mountain pass, by Ydaʿʾab Dhubyān son of Shahr mukarrib of Qatabān, and by the qayls of the Maḍḥī tribe. Egitto e Vicino Oriente, 32: 165-181. |