Language | Ancient South Arabian » Qatabanic » Central Qatabanic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
Besides palaeography, this text shows a number of features in the textual formulas that make date it in the period C. |
English | |
1 Bnʾl ʾṣdq, son of Hwfʿm, ḏ-Hrn 2 and ḏ-Ḏrʾn, dedicated to his God and Lord ʾṯr- 3 t, Master of Mhnn, in the town of Ḫḏry the bronze sta- 4 tue for his son ʾbkrb as the Master of Mhnn had ordered to him; 5 Bnʾl has committed to the Master of Mhnn his faculties and his material resources and the 6 life of his son ʾbkrb and his statue against everyone who 7 may damage it or may move it from its place. |
Deposit | London, The British Museum, BM 2004,0603.1 |
Support type | Artefact » Base » Of statue with dedicatory inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 28.5, w. 29.8 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Unknown |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | Unknown |
Country | Unknown |
Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of ʾṯrt bʿl Mhnn |
Notes | The toponym Ḫḏry, mentioned in the text and from which the inscription may come, is probably to be identified with Ḫudrāʾ (see also Doe 2). |
Link to site record |
Bron 1992: 20-22, photo | Bron, François 1992. Mémorial Mahmud al-Ghul. Inscriptions sudarabiques. Paris: Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner / Sanʿāʾ: Centre français d'études yéménites. |
Beeston 1995: 203-205, fig. 1 | Beeston, Alfred F.L. 1995. Capt. Aylward's Qatabanian Inscriptions. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 6/3: 203-205. |