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CIH 356B
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Undefined Sabaic |
| Script | Ancient South Arabian |
| Script typology | Monumental writing |
| Text direction | Right-to-left |
| Text appearance | Recessed |
| Execution technique | Incision |
GENERAL NOTES
| The text is indipendent of the main inscription. |
TEXT
1 | ʿlhn ḏ-Tʾlqm mlʿb ʾrḍ-hw ʾʿl[... ...]
| ḏ-ʾrḍ (CIH). |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 ʿlhn ḏ-Tʾlqm irrigated land of his land [... ...] |
| 1 | Jamme 1971: 46 rejects the CIH translation of mlʿb (“solum irrigatum”) and considers the substantive to be an attribute of the name ʿlhn, comparing it to the Syriac “to passionately desire” and therefore translating it as “enchanté de”, which appears highly unlikely. mlʿb is attested in CIH 37, 7: mlʿb ʿbrn “irrigated land of the terraced fields”. The noun is only found in inscriptions from the high plateau. |
| Jamme 1971 b | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1971. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe II. Washington. 2025/04/17; https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.38250313. [Privately printed] |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | London, The British Museum, BM 125143=1887,0629.31 |
| Support type | Artefact » Stela » Stela with framework |
| Material | Stone |
| Dimensions | h. 26.2, w. 33, th. 10.5 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Ṣirwāḥ-Arḥab |
| Ancient site | Mdrm |
| Geographical area | Arḥab |
| Country | Yemen |
| Link to site record |