Support type | Stone inscription | ||
Material | Stone | ||
Measures | a: h. 22.7, w. 29; b: h. 22.5, w. 32; c: h. 17.2, w. 37.5; d: h. 17.3, w. 23.6; e: h. 26.3, w. 25.9; f: h. 26.4, w. 34.3 | ||
Chronology |
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Notes on support and decorations | The inscription is written on 6 different stone blocks, red painted. |
Modern site | Raybūn |
Ancient site | Rybn [oasis] |
Geographical area | Central Ḥaḍramawt |
Country | Yemen |
Found | In situ |
Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple Rḥbn of ḏt Ḥmym |
Notes | The inscribed blocks are inserted inside the western wall of the temple Raḥbān, in Raybūn I, building 4 (archaeological sigla: Rb I/84 building 3, lev. I nos 196 a-d + 201 a-b). |
Link to site record |
Title | EPSY 708 a-f |
Language | Ancient South Arabian » Ḥaḍramitic |
Link to epigraph record |
Frantsouzoff 2015: 75-76, fig. 2 | Frantsouzoff, Serguei A. 2015. Sur l'interprétation du terme bḥt: nouvelles suggestions. Pages 73-77 in Mounir Arbach and Jérémie Schiettecatte (eds). Pre-Islamic South Arabia and its Neighbours: New Developments of Research. Proceedings of the 17th Rencontres Sabéennes held in Paris, 6–8 June 2013. (BAR International Series, 2740). Oxford: Archaeopress. [British Foundation for the Study of Arabia Monographs, 16] |