Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Early Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Script cursus | Boustrophedon | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Measure of letters | 9.2 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Construction text |
English | |
1 S¹mhrym Ḏbyn, son of Krbʾl, brother of Ydʿʾl and S¹mhʿly, 2 erected the stela of his ritual banquet, when he celebrated the ritual banquet of ʿṯtr ḏ-Ḏbn and burnt offerings 3 to Him in Trḥ; by S¹mhʿly. |
Support type | Inscription on architectural structure |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 52, w. 136 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Jabal al-Lawdh |
Ancient site | Kwrn |
Geographical area | Northern Jawf |
Country | Yemen |
Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of ʿṯtr ḏ-Ḏbn |
Notes | Found near the monumental porch of the al-Kaʿāb temple. |
Link to site record |
Robin 1997 a: 159-160, 168 (fig. 1) | Robin, Christian J. 1997. Sumhūriyām, fils de Karibʾīl le Grand, et le mukarribat. Pages 155-170 in Roswitha G. Stiegner (ed.). Aktualisierte Beiträge zum 1. Internationalen Symposion Südarabien, interdisziplinär an der Universität Graz mit kurzen Einführungen zu Sprach- und Kulturgeschichte. In memoriam Maria Höfner. Graz: Leykam. |