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Ja 2354 Van Lessen 25; Shirjān 1


Doe 1971: pl. 75

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Southern Middle Sabaic
ScriptAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Text directionRight-to-left
Text appearanceRecessed
Execution techniqueIncision
Chronology
PeriodE. Conjectural
Textual typologyConstruction text

TEXT

marker


   1  Hwfʿm ʾwlṭ nḥln w-bn-hw H—
   2  lʿw w-Ḥṭbm ʾlht qyln kbr nhmn
   3  w-brʾn w-mgyrtn w-grbtn w-tqdm
   4  ʾrdʾ-hw b-ḏn mʾgln Bnʾ ḥn—
   5  g-n wqh-hw ʾmrʾ-hw b—
   6  ny Hṣbḥ w-hẓl fʿln
   7  [... ...]

Apparatus
7Jamme reads: Ġylw s²bk "Ġylw a fait cet entrelacement".

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  Hwfʿm ʾwlṭ, the captain, and his sons H-
   2  lʿw and Ḥṭbm, those of the qyl, supervised the smooth dressing,
   3  the construction, the plastering, the lining and he was in charge of
   4  his helpers in (the construction) of this cistern Bnʾ, as
   5  his lords ordered him, the
   6  family Hṣbḥ; he realized the work
   7  [... ...]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeRock
MaterialStone
Dimensionsh. 34, w. 65
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin and provenance
Modern siteal-Ghunaymiyya
Ancient siteunknown
Geographical areaWādī Shirjān
CountryYemen
FoundIn situ
Archaeological contextAgricultural irrigation context
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

al-Ghūl 1959 b: 425-429, pl. 3al-Ghūl, Maḥmūd ʿA. 1959. New Qatabāni Inscriptions - II. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 22: 419-438.
Jamme 1971 b: 88Jamme, Albert W.F. 1971. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe II. Washington. 2025/04/17; https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.38250313. [Privately printed]
Wissmann 1968: 82Wissmann, Hermann von 1968. Zur Archäologie und antiken Geographie von Südarabien. Ḥaḍramaut, Qatabān und das ʿAden-Gebiet in der Antike. (Uitgaven van het, Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Instituut te İstanbul, 24). Istanbul: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten.
Doe 1971: 175-176, fig. 75Doe, D. Brian 1971. Southern Arabia. London: Thames and Hudson.