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 | Construction text |
See the text RES 3550=CSAI I, 21, where the king himself Ydʿʾb Ḏbyn commemorates the construction of the pass of Mblqt, the temple of Wdm and ʾṯrt and the king's residence. |
3 | ḥdṯn is probably a form fʿln. |
4 | mḫtn too is probably a form fʿln. |
English | |
1 ʾws¹ʿm, son of Yṣrʿm, of the family Mdhm, servant of Ydʿʾb Ḏbyn, son 2 of S²hr, king of Qatabān, directed and realized all the cutting (of stones) and the smoothing and the paving 3 of the pass of Mablaqa and the whole realization and consecration of the temple of Wdm and ʾṯrt 4 and of the king's shelter in Qly, at the command of his Lord Ydʿʾb. |
Support type | Rock inscription |
Measures | h. 24, w. 96 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | ʿAqabat Mablaqa |
Ancient site | Mblqt |
Geographical area | Wādī Bayḥān |
Country | Yemen |
Link to site record |
Ryckmans, Gonzague 1949 a: 77-78, pl. I (facsimile) | Ryckmans, Gonzague 1949. Inscriptions sud-arabes. Huitième série. Le Muséon, 62: 55-124. |