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Bari 2021-5


INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Early Sabaic
ScriptAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Text directionBoustrophedon
Text appearanceRecessed
Execution techniqueIncision
Chronology
PeriodA
Textual typologyDedicatory text - fragmentary

GENERAL NOTES

The beginning of the text must have been inscribed on a separate block that was positioned on top of this one (Prioletta et al. 2021: 335).

TEXT

marker


      [... ...]
   1  w-wḍʾ hqnyt-hw w-
   2  mhrt-hw w-nfs¹ ʾm—
   3  t-hw Qʿm b-ʾḏn ʾ(ḫ)—
   4  ḫtn b-qdmt Lḥyʿṯt
   5  ḏ-Ḥdqn w-(b)[...]-hmw ʾḫḫt—
   6  n ʾʾṭm bn ḏ-(ṯ)br b-(m)—
   7  bny Rḥb(m)

TRANSLATIONS

English

      [... ...]
   1  and he placed his dedication,
   2  his possessions and the life of his female servant
   3  Qʿm under the will of Akha-
   4  khatān during the command of Laḥayʿathat
   5  he of Ḥadaqān and their […] Akhakha-
   6  tān ʾʾṭm (?), against the one who may bring destruction (?) in
   7  the construction of Rḥbm.
Prioletta et al. 2021: 335Prioletta, Alessia, Robin, Christian J., Schiettecatte, Jérémie, Gajda, Iwona and Noman, Khaldon 2021. Sabaeans on the Somali coast. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 32/1: 328-339. 2023/10/24; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aae.12202.

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeStone piece
MaterialStone
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin and provenance. Conjectural
Modern siteAbdexan
Ancient siteUnknown
CountryFederal Republic of Somalia
Archaeological contextReligious context: Temple of ʾḫḫtn
NotesThe found area of this looted epigraph has remained undisclosed. The area of Abdexan well has been proposed on the basis of comparisons of the landscape (visible in the background of one photograph of the looted area) with Google Earth's digital elevation models (Prioletta et al. 2021: 328-329, fig: 1).
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Prioletta et al. 2021: 334-335, 332 (fig. 8)Prioletta, Alessia, Robin, Christian J., Schiettecatte, Jérémie, Gajda, Iwona and Noman, Khaldon 2021. Sabaeans on the Somali coast. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 32/1: 328-339. 2023/10/24; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aae.12202.