Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Measure of letters | 4.3 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
2 | Letter s² of S²ms¹ reversed. |
English | |
1 [... ...] and her brothers and their son (or: children), descendants of ʾmt S²[.]ʾ (or: of the servant of S²[.]ʾ), son of Ḏbdt, of the clan Ḥddn of the tribe ʿqn 2 dedicated to S²ms¹, the goddess (or: goddesses) of Ġr, Hn ʾlt, ḏt b-S¹mwy, Brmlky, Btmlkyʾ 3 and the goddess (or: goddesses) of Grḍ their lives, their children, their properties and their goods, by S²ms¹ 4 Hn ʾlt, ḏt-b-S¹mwy, Brmlkyʾ, Btmlkyʾ and the goddess (or: goddesses) of Grḍ, and by ʿ‒ 5 ṯtr and ʾlmqh, and by ḏt Ḥmym and by ḏt Ns²qm, during the seventh year of the reign of Seleucus, and by Yd‒ 6 ʿʾl Byn; they committed their inscription to ʿṯtr and ʾlmqh, against any removal or damage. |
Deposit | Ṣanʿāʾ, University Museum, A-20-216 |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 27.2, w. 47, th. 10 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Unknown |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | Unknown |
Country | Unknown |
Notes | In the museum catalogue the inscription is said to come from al-Bayḍāʾ. |
Link to site record |
Prioletta 2011: 283-294, figs 1-4 | Prioletta, Alessia 2011. The Sabaic inscription A–20–216: a new Sabaean-Seleucid synchronism. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 41: 283-294. |
Robin and Prioletta 2013: 167, fig. 9 | Robin, Christian J. and Prioletta, Alessia 2013. Nouveaux arguments en faveur d'une identification de la cité de Gerrha avec le royaume de Hagar (Arabie orientale). Semitica et Classica, 6: 131-185. |