ʿUqayba 3
Pirenne 1990: fig. 16
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Ḥaḍramitic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Construction text |
TEXT
1 Rʾbʿs³t bn ʿmʾns¹ fʿ(l)
2 h-mrʾ-s¹ Ydʿ[ʾb] Ġyln bn
3 [S¹m]hyfʿ mlk Ḥ(ḍ)[rmt]
| 3 | Hyfʿ (Pirenne), [S¹m]hyfʿ (Bron, Robin). |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Rʾbʿs³t son of ʿmʾns¹ carried out the work 2 for his lord Ydʿʾb Ġyln son of 3 S¹mhyfʿ king of Ḥaḍramawt. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Rock inscription |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | ʿUqayba |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | Shabwa |
| Country | Yemen |
| Found | In situ |
| Link to site record |
CULTURAL NOTES
The king Ydʿʾb Ġyln is probably the same king mentioned in the Qatabanic inscription Arbach-Sayūn 1, which relates a was between Ḥaḍramawt and Qatabān to be dated at the end of the 2nd c. - beginning of the 1st c. BC (see Prioletta).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Pirenne 1990: 53, fig. 16 (facsimile) | Pirenne, Jacqueline 1990. Les témoins écrit de la région de Shabwa et l'histoire. Jean-François Breton (ed.), Fouilles de Shabwa. 1. (Bibliothèque archéologique et historique, 134). Paris: Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner. [Institut français d'Archéologie du Proche-Orient] |
| Bron 1991 a: 460 | Bron, François 1991. Notes sur les inscriptions de Shabwa. Syria, 68: 459-462. |
| Robin 1992 b: 210 | Robin, Christian J. 1992. Review of Pirenne, Jacqueline 1990. Les témoins écrit de la région de Shabwa et l'histoire. Jean-François Breton (ed.), Fouilles de Shabwa. 1. (Bibliothèque archéologique et historique, 134). Paris: Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner. [Institut français d'Archéologie du Proche-Orient]. Bulletin critique des Annales Islamologiques, 9: 205-213. |
| Prioletta 2006: 260, fig. 4 | Prioletta, Alessia 2006. Note di epigrafia Hadramawtica 1. L'alternanza di ṯ e s³. Egitto e Vicino Oriente, 29: 249-267. |