Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Relief | ||
Measure of letters | 6 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Construction text - fragmentary |
2 | Yʿrr could be a patronymic. |
4 | Al-Salami reads ḫs¹s¹m, the normal form of the noun, but the reading ḫs³s³m is sure: interesting attestation of the shift s¹ to s³. |
English | |
1 Rbm ʾḫṭr, Hʿn ʾs¹ʿd, and Nms²m Yrḫm of the clans Gdnm, Ḥbtlm and Zb[nr ... ...] 2 Yʿrr of the family Ḥbtlm, walled, constructed, finished, repaired, and erected the (stone) slabs, [... ... and the to]- 3 wers of their city ʿtkn, by the power of their lord S²ʿrm ʾwtr, king of Sabaʾ and ḏu-[Raydān, the son of ʿlhn ] 4 Nhfn, king of Sabaʾ. They entrusted the whole inscription against damages [... ...] 5 and ʾlmqh Ṯhwn and Ḥgrm Qḥmm and their lord S²[ʿrm ʾwtr, king of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān]. |
2 | mṯldt is a hapax in ASA. Al-Salami finds a possible comparaison in the Eth. saledā "tablet, slab". The hypothesis by Al-Salami is uncertain, the Eth. saledā is a loanword from Greek selis "column of writing". |
al-Salami 2011: 54 | al-Salami, Mohammed Ali 2011. Sabäische Inschriften aus dem Ḫawlān. (Jenaer Beiträge zum Vorderen Orient, 7). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | w. 102 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Dār ash-Sharīf |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | Jiḥāna |
Country | Yemen |
Link to site record |
al-Salami 2011: 53-56, fig. 29 | al-Salami, Mohammed Ali 2011. Sabäische Inschriften aus dem Ḫawlān. (Jenaer Beiträge zum Vorderen Orient, 7). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. |
Rijziger 2017 b: 239, 243 | Rijziger, Sarah 2017. Two new inscriptions mentioning Rabbum ʾAkhṭar, a military commander of the Sabaean king in the first half of the third century AD. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 28/2: 238-245. 2019/10/19; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/16000471/2017/28/2. |