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Ja 506 A Nami NAG 20
Jamme 1954 e: pl. 1 (top)
Jamme 1954 e: pl. 1 (top)
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
| Script | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Text direction | Right-to-left | ||
| Text appearance | Raised | ||
| Execution technique | Incision | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Construction text (conjectural) |
GENERAL NOTES
| The typology of the text is not sure. Jamme 1954 e: 42 translated hṯbw w-hgbʾn "ont présenté et offert", but a translation "repaired and plastered" seems more probable (see for example YMN 10, 3-4). |
TEXT
1 Whbʾwm ʾṣdq w-bn↯y-*h*w Ḏrḥʾl w-S¹ʿdṯ—
2 wn bny ḏ-Ḫlfn ʾnmrm↯hṯbw w-hgbʾn
| 1 | -nw for -hw |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Ṣanʿāʾ, The National Museum |
| Support type | Artefact » Slab |
| Material | Stone |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Maʾrib |
| Ancient site | Mryb / Mrb |
| Geographical area | Maʾrib |
| Country | Yemen |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Jamme 1954 e: 42, pl. 1 | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1954. Trois plaques épigraphiques sabéennes du Musée de Ṣanʿâʾ. Bibliotheca Orientalis, 11/2: 42-43, pl. 1. |
| Lundin 1969: fig. 1 | Lundin (=Loundine), Avraam G. 1969. Novye južnoarabskie nadpisi muzeja v Ṣanʿa (II). Epigrafika Vostoka, 19: 14-20. |