B 7082
By kind permission of GOAM
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Early Sabaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 5 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text - fragmentary |
TEXT
1 [... ...](m)yfʿ ḏ-Bs²ẓ—
2 [... ...] r s²wʿ ʿṯtr |
3 [... ...](b)r w-ʾbʾmr
4 [... ...]ʾmr qyn
5 [... ...] (s³)[... ...]
| 1 | S¹]myfʿ or ʿ]myfʿ. |
| 5 | letter s³ in archaic style. We're tempted to integrate s³[lʾ, but this would imply for the text to be in Minaic. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Ṣanʿāʾ, Military Museum, B 7082 |
| Support type | Artefact » Stela » Stela with framework |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 40, w. 33, th. 13 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Maʾrib |
| Ancient site | Mryb / Mrb |
| Geographical area | Maʾrib |
| Country | Yemen |
| Notes | The catalogue reports a provenance from Mārib. However, a doubt remains that the piece should rather come from a city of al-Jawf (cf. the cultural note). |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Rossi 2022: 383-384, 495, fig. 75 | Rossi, Irene 2022. The city-states of the Jawf at the dawn of Ancient South Arabian history (8th-6th centuries BCE). II. Corpus of the inscriptions. (Arabia Antica, 17/2). Roma: «L'Erma» di Bretschneider. |