Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Late Sabaic | ||||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||||
Writing technique | Incision | ||||
Measure of letters | 4.5 | ||||
Chronology |
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2 | l-ʾḫr (Müller). |
4 | for Ymnt see Robin 2013: 131-133. |
English | |
1 [... ...] the ʾqwl of the tribe of S¹mʿy, section of ḏ-Ḥmln [... ...] 2 [... ...] their Lord, Lord of Heaven, let Him hear the prayer [... ...] 3 [... ...] their lords Ṯʾrn Yhnʿm and his son [... ...] 4 [... ...] two kings of Sabaʾ, ḏu-Raydān, Ḥaḍramawt and Yamanat and let the Lord of Heaven listen [... ...] 5 [... ...] on the month of ḏ-Ḫrfn of the year three [... ...] |
2 | "let Him take away the worry" (Müller). |
Deposit | Ṣanʿāʾ, The National Museum, YM 1950 |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 29.5, w. 40, th. 14 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Bayt Ghufr |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | Hamdān |
Country | Yemen |
Link to site record |
Gajda 2005: 22-26, fig. 1 | Gajda, Iwona 2005. The earliest monotheistic south Arabian inscription. Archäologische Berichte aus dem Yemen, 10: 21-29. |
Müller, Walter W. 2010: 57 | Müller, Walter W. 2010. Sabäische Inschriften nach Ären datiert. Bibliographie, Texte und Glossar. (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission, 53). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. |
Robin 2003 | Robin, Christian J. 2003. Le judaïsme de Ḥimyar. Arabia. Revue de Sabéologie, 1: 97-172. |
Robin 2013 | Robin, Christian J. 2013. À propos de Ymnt et Ymn: « nord » et « sud », « droite » et « gauche », dans les inscriptions de l'Arabie antique. Pages 119-140 in Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet, Catherine Fauveaud and Iwona Gajda (eds). Entre Carthage et l’Arabie heureuse. Mélanges offerts à François Bron. (Orient & Méditerranée, 12). Paris: de Boccard. |