| 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] |