Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Legal text - fragmentary |
The reading zʿt-mw is possible. The interpretation of Ḫlqtm as a toponym is hypoyhetical. | |
3 | The missing letter in w-ʾ[.]lṯ-hmw, according to the editor, could be a ṯ, thus connected with "three" or "third". |
4 | The reading ws¹ṭn (preposition ws¹ṭ and enclytic n) is not sure. |
English | |
1 [...] they have asked and sought knowledge and [...] 2 [...] they assembled (?) in the citadel (?) ḏ-Ḫlqtm [...] 3 [...] and their "thirds" (?), all the assembly (?) of the tribe "third" (=fraction) ḏ-Ḫlqtm [...] 4 [...] and order (?) and command from (the midst of) their hearts and from the midst (?) of their (tribal) seat [...] 5 [...] and a (divine) information and a ... of command and order(,) S¹ʿdtʾlb, descendant of S¹myʿm, ... [...] 6 [...] descendant of Mʿhr and ḏ-Ḫwln, son of Whbʾl Yḥz, descendant of Mʿhr and ḏ-Ḫwln [...] 7 [...] and every qayl who will rule and command and wield authority over Banū Btʿ from within the house [...] 8 [...] their two lords S¹ʿdtʾlb and Mḫṭrn [...] 9 [...] a proposal [...] |
Rijziger 2018: 143-146 | Rijziger, Sarah 2018. Sabaean inscriptions from Ḥāz, Yemen. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 29/2: 135-171. 2019/10/02; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/aae.12111. |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Ḥāz |
Ancient site | Ḥzym |
Geographical area | Hamdān |
Country | Yemen |
Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
Link to site record |
Rijziger 2018: 143-146, fig. 21 | Rijziger, Sarah 2018. Sabaean inscriptions from Ḥāz, Yemen. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 29/2: 135-171. 2019/10/02; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/aae.12111. |