Language | Ancient South Arabian » Qatabanic » Awsanite | ||
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 | ||
Royal inscription | Yes |
7 | Pirenne reads ymṣʾ. The third letter however is a ẓ. The epigraphic explanation suggested by Pirenne (in CIAS 49.10/o 1 n. 2, for the line 3: "on constate que l'on écrit ṣ avec son arc de cercle complet lorsque la lettre précédente laisse, en bas, un vide où l'excès de largeur du ṣ peut se compenser: c'est le cas après le Y de Yaṣduq'il") has to be rejected, as the other example quoted by her, CIAS F59/s 4 49.10 n. 4 shows, in fact, the name of the same king with ṣ instead of ẓ. We probably deal with a fluctuation of the phonemes ṣ and ẓ, which is well attested in ASA languages, instead of with two graphic variants for the phoneme ṣ. |
English | |
1 Memorial of Yṣdqʾl F- 2 rʿm S²rḥʿt son of W- 3 dm king of Awsan and let it 4 remain in this place 5 for all time to come. It is not 6 permitted to remove it from its place 7 in favour of some other memorial which replaces 8 it (it is not permitted) for any of the (future) kings of Awsan 9 as his father 10 Wdm ordered in His oracle. |
Avanzini 2004 a: 541-542 | Avanzini, Alessandra 2004. Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions I-III. Qatabanic, Marginal Qatabanic, Awsanite Inscriptions. (Arabia Antica, 2). Pisa: Edizioni Plus-Università di Pisa. |
Deposit | Aden, The National Museum, NAM 601=AM 60.1283 |
Support type | Artefact » Slab (mʿmr) |
Material | Alabaster |
Measures | h. 40.5, w. 28.5, th. 13.5 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Unknown |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | wādī Markha |
Country | Yemen |
Link to site record |
CIAS: ii, 155-161, photo | Beeston, Alfred F.L., Pirenne, Jacqueline and Robin, Christian J. 1977-1986. Corpus des inscriptions et antiquités sud-arabes: Vol. I (1977): Tome 1. Inscriptions. Tome 2. Antiquités; Vol. II (1986): Le Musée d’Aden. Tome 1. Inscriptions. Tome 2. Antiquités. Louvain: Peeters. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres] |
Simpson 2002: 191, cat. 263 | Simpson, St John (ed.) 2002. Queen of Sheba. Treasures from the ancient Yemen. London: British Museum Press. [Catalogue of an exhibition held at the British Museum, London] |
Avanzini 2004 a | Avanzini, Alessandra 2004. Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions I-III. Qatabanic, Marginal Qatabanic, Awsanite Inscriptions. (Arabia Antica, 2). Pisa: Edizioni Plus-Università di Pisa. |