Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Measure of letters | 3.8 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Dedicatory text - fragmentary |
1 | The suffix pronoun could be singular, dual or plural. |
English | |
1 Brfm and ʾs¹ʾl and his (?) son [...] 2 and ʿs¹m, son of ʾqlʾ, subjects of [... dedicated to] 3 Tʿlb Rymm, lord of Kbdmn the statue [...] 4 to make return the document, which was stolen from their house 5 [...] and He may again [... ...] |
1 | The suffix pronoun could be singular, dual or plural. |
4 | The translation is hypothetical, see the morphological similar construct in CIH 30, 4-5: mqṭr s¹rq. |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 25, w. 31, th. 15 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Shibām al-Ghirās / Shibām Sukhaym (Al-ʿAṣarī, surroundings of Shibām Sukhaym) |
Ancient site | S²bmm |
Geographical area | Banī Ḥushaysh |
Country | Yemen |
Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
Archaeological context | Urban context: Private house |
Notes | Reemployed on the right part of the wall of a staircase. |
Link to site record |
Bauer and Lundin 1998: 11-12 | Bauer, Gleb M. and Lundin (=Loundine), Avraam G. 1998. Pamjatniki Drevnej Istorii i Kultury. Južnaja Aravija. Part 2: Epigraficheskie pamjiatniki drevnego Jemena. 2. St.-Petersburg: Zentr "Peterburgskoe vostokovedenie". [Akademia nauk, Institut Vostokovedenija, Sankt-Peterburgskiy filial] |