Language | Ancient South Arabian » Qatabanic » Marginal Qatabanic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Measure of letters | 7.5 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Construction text |
4 | it is possible to integrate brk[t-hw] or even brk[-s¹w]w |
English | |
1 Mḫṭrn ʾs¹ʾr he of Mʿhr and ḏ-Ḫwln qyl of 2 Rdmn and Ḫwln son of Mʿdkrb Yhmgd qyl of 3 Rdmn and Ḫwln cut, constructed and completed his reservoir 4 Tʿwd in order to protect the cistern through the help of 5 ʿm and the power of his tribe Ḫwln. |
Avanzini 2004 a: 516 | Avanzini, Alessandra 2004. Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions I-III. Qatabanic, Marginal Qatabanic, Awsanite Inscriptions. (Arabia Antica, 2). Pisa: Edizioni Plus-Università di Pisa. |
Support type | Rock inscription |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Ḥayd al-ʿAyn |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | al-Ḥadd |
Country | Yemen |
Found | In situ |
Link to site record |
Bāfaqīh and Bāṭāyiʿ 1988: 63-64, pl. 2 | Bāfaqīh, Muḥammad ʿA. and Bāṭāyiʿ, Aḥmed 1988. Nuqūš min al-Ḥadd. Raydān, 5: 61-80. [Arabic section] |
Robin 1991 | Robin, Christian J. 1991. ʿAmdān Bayyin Yuhaqbid, roi de Sabaʾ et de dū-Raydān. Pages 167-205 in Études sud-arabes. Recueil offert à Jacques Ryckmans. (Publications de l'Institut Orientaliste de Louvain, 39). Louvain-La-Neuve: Université Catholique de Louvain, Institut Orientaliste. |