Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Southern Middle Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Measure of letters | 2.5 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Construction text |
3 | Yf[ʿn], integration by the editor. |
6 | bqyrtm could be interpretated: b-qyrtm, but qyrt is a hapax in ASA, perhaps we can compare with Arabic qīr "tar". |
7 | For w-mwrmm the editor thinks of mwr "way of access", but the morphological analysis is not easy. It is difficult to imagine two scribe's errors: we should remove the first w and the second m. |
English | |
1 ʾls²rḥ ʾṣdq and his sons ʾls²r and ʾlʿ[......] 2 Nhym and of the family Ydm built, repaired, constructed, and completed [...] 3 the gate, the walls, the construction associated with the walls of their city Ṣyrtn, the tower Yfʿn, 4 the two houses Nʿmn and S²bʿn, then they repaired from the foundations to the roof, 5 and the towers Rdʿm, Rznm, Yʿrm and Mḥfdm (or: and a tower) towards the protection 6 and the tower Yhwnʿ; they constructed a levelled field (or: with tar (?) from the founding to the roof and the 7 burial place Mḥwrn, then they repaired Wmwrmm (?) and on it a rfq (?); then they repaired and plastered [...] 8 [... ...] in the irrigated land of their city; then they repaired and plastered after that the Abyssinian army 9 burned and [...] their city Ṣyrtn, when there was a war to the army of Ḥmyrm [...] 10 [... ...] with the help and the power of ʿṯtr S²rqn and their solar deities [...] 11 [... ...] their god S²yʾn and Ḥbr and with the beneficence and the power of [...] 12 [... ...] and the directive of their people, their group [... ...] 13 [... ...] the year 98 (or: 198) 14 [... ...] |
Deposit | Unknown, Unknown |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 39, w. 95, th. 5 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Jabal Ḏaẖār |
Ancient site | unknown |
Geographical area | Juban |
Country | Yemen |
Archaeological context | Urban context |
Link to site record |
al-Ḥasanī 2017 | al-Ḥasanī, Jamāl Muḥammad Nāṣir 2017. Naqsh tiḏkārī ḥmiyarī min al-Ḍāliʿ (Ḥimyari memorial inscription from Ḍaliʿ). Majallat Jamiʿat ʿAdan al-iliktrūniyya, 7/January: 29-50. |