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Language
Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Southern Middle Sabaic
Alphabet
Ancient South Arabian
Script typology
Monumental writing
Writing technique
Incision
Measure of letters
4.8-6.5
Chronology
Period
C. Conjectural
TEXT
1 s¹ṭr S²rḥʿṯt 2 grbyn b-ym gr— 3 b b-S¹lf
Apparatus
1-3
The reading proposed follows Beeston’s. Tschinkowitz's reading: s¹ṭr S²rḥṯt grbyn b[.]m grb ḏ-S¹lf(n).
2
For Tschinkowitz, Grbyn may be a nisbe from a place Grb, near Bainūn, the place where was found the inscription. More probably, it is a common noun which means "stonemason".
Tschinkowitz, Helga 1969. Kleine Fragmente. Sammlung Eduard Glaser. 6. (Sitzungsberichte der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 261/4). Vienna: Böhlau in Kommission.
Beeston 1976 a: 412-413, 423
Beeston, Alfred F.L. 1976. Notes on Old South Arabian lexicography X. Le Muséon, 89: 407-423.