Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Early Sabaic |
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian |
Script typology | Monumental writing |
Writing technique | Incision |
Measure of letters | 5 |
Textual typology | Dedicatory text - fragmentary |
The text could be dated to period A or B on the palaeographical basis, although it is difficult to read. |
English | |
1 Ns²rm S²s³ʿn dedicated to S²rqn and [... their ...] 2 himself, his sons and [his] possessions [... ...] |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Kharibat Hamdān |
Ancient site | Hrm |
Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī Madhab |
Country | Yemen |
Notes | There is no evidence that the text comes from Haram. Höfner 1944: 68, proposed this provenance for the presence of the Sabaic suffix pronouns together with the Madhabaic verb of dedication s³lʾ. This is a well attested phenomenon in Haram, but it is not restricted to Haram only. |
Link to site record |
Tschinkowitz-Nagler 1975: pl. VIII/2 | Tschinkowitz-Nagler, Helga 1975. Kleine Fragmente. (II. Teil). Sammlung Eduard Glaser. 11. (Sitzungsberichte der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 301/3). Vienna: Verlag der Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. |
Robin 1992 a: 125, pl. 20/c | Robin, Christian J. 1992. Inabbaʾ, Haram, al-Kāfir, Kamna et al-Ḥarāshif. Fasc. A: Les documents. Fasc. B: Les planches. Inventaire des inscriptions sudarabiques. 1. Paris: de Boccard / Rome: Herder. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres; Istituto italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente] |