CSAI

Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions


INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Undefined Sabaic
AlphabetAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Writing techniqueIncision
Textual typologyLegal text - fragmentary

GENERAL NOTES

Ryckmans, Jacques 1954: 342, fn.11 first recognized that two different inscriptions were joined in CIH 600.

TEXT


   1  w-ʾl b-ʿbr w-b-ʿly bny Bʿln w-bn
   2  [ʾ]dm ʿnnn ḏ-Ḏrʾn bn s¹mʿm ḏ-b-hw
   3  ln w-Wddʾl w-Lbnbyḥ ḏ-lqḥ l-rbʿ
   4  [..]bn mlʾ-hw ʾrbʿy rḍym w-ʾhn-mw yhʿk—
   5  [rn] mʿn l-yknn ḥqqm w-nfqm w-ḏ-ʾl b-hw
   6  [..]kwn ḏn mnfqn b-wrḫ ḏ-Fls¹m ḏ-ḫrf
   7  [Mʿd]krb bn Ns²ʾkryb bn Fḍḥm ṯkm[tn]

Apparatus
CIH considered this text as the left part of CIH 600A (ll. 7-13 in Halévy's copy).
1b-ʿrb in Haléy's copy.
5w-ḏn s¹]mʿn (Höfner).

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeMonumental stela
MaterialStone
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin
Modern siteṢirwāḥ-Khawlān
Ancient siteṢrwḥ
Geographical areaṢirwāḥ
CountryYemen
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Höfner 1976: 26-27Höfner, Maria 1976. Inschriften aus Ṣirwāḥ, Ḫaulān. (II Teil). Sammlung Eduard Glaser. 12. (Sitzungsberichte der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 304/5). Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.
Ryckmans, Jacques 1954Ryckmans, Jacques 1954. Le sens de ḏʾl en sud-arabe. Le Muséon, 67: 339-348.