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Bari 2021-7


INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Early Sabaic
ScriptAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Text directionBoustrophedon
Text appearanceRecessed
Execution techniqueIncision
Chronology
PeriodA

TEXT

marker


   1  [... ...]Rbn ḥdy[... ...]
   2  [... ...Yh]yṯʿ bn Ẓ(w)[rʿ... ...]

Apparatus
1According to Prioletta et al. 2021, the first letters are to be interpreted as the group name Rbn (cf. Bari 2021-2), and the word ḥdy might derive from the root ḤDD, attested in ASA as the verb ḥd ‘sacralise’ (cf. Beeston et al. 1982: 65).
2The integration of the lacuna in the first name is supported by inscriptions Bari 2021-2 and Bari 2021-3 (Prioletta et al. 2021: 336).

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: 333 (fig. 10), 336Prioletta, 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.
Beeston et al. 1982 (=SD)Beeston, Alfred F.L., al-Ghūl, Maḥmūd ʿA., Müller, Walter W. and Ryckmans, Jacques 1982. Sabaic Dictionary (English-French-Arabic). Dictionnaire Sabéen (anglais-français-arabe). Louvain-la-Neuve: Éditions Peeters / Beirut: Libraire du Liban.