Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||||
Writing technique | Incision | ||||
Measure of letters | 5-6 | ||||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Construction text |
3 | ḏ-Ḫs³mtm: unknown lineage name. Ṣydn: could be another spelling of Ṣdn. |
4 | Ḥḍrn: mentioned here for the first time as house name; often occurs as a lineage name. |
English | |
1 Gāḥiḍum ʾAyhar, his brothers Nimrān Yanūf and Nawfum Yarīm, and their sons [... 2 Marṯadʾilān, Barīlum, Luḥayʿt, ʾAbīkarib, Šaraḥʾīil und ʾAbīšamar, [...] Kabīr [Aqyānum ... 3 .., ḏū-Rayb, ḏū-Qamišum, ḏū-ʿAlwān, Ṯanīm, and ḏū-Ḫaśmatum, chiefs of Ṣaydān of Šaddātum [... 4 and Ḥufāšum, have built, laid foundations, finished off (plastered) and elevated their house Ḥaḍrān and its assembly/reception hall [with the assistance of their two lords] 5 ʾAbīkarib ʾAsʿad and Ḏaraʾʾamar ʾAyman, kings of Sabʾ, ḏū-Raydān, Ḥaḍramawt and Yam[anat and with the power of their tribe] 6 Bakīlum. Its date is (the month of) ḏū-Qiyāṣān of the year 487. |
Sholan and Gajda 2015: 161-166 | Sholan, Amida and Gajda, Iwona 2015. A new Ḥimyaritic inscription from Šibām Kawkabān dated to the year 487 of the Ḥimyaritic era. Pages 161-169 in Iris Gerlach (ed.). South Arabia and its neighbours. Phenomena of intercultural contacts. 14. Rencontres Sabéennes. (Archäologische Berichte aus dem Yemen, 14). Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag. |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 42, w. 120 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Shibām-Kawkabān |
Ancient site | S²bm |
Geographical area | al-Maḥwīt |
Country | Yemen |
Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
Archaeological context | Urban context: Private house Ḥḍrn |
Notes | The stone inscription is reemployed as a part of pillar inside the mosque of Shibām Kawkabān. |
Link to site record |
Sholan and Gajda 2015: 161-167, figs 1-4 | Sholan, Amida and Gajda, Iwona 2015. A new Ḥimyaritic inscription from Šibām Kawkabān dated to the year 487 of the Ḥimyaritic era. Pages 161-169 in Iris Gerlach (ed.). South Arabia and its neighbours. Phenomena of intercultural contacts. 14. Rencontres Sabéennes. (Archäologische Berichte aus dem Yemen, 14). Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag. |