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YM 29828
Arbach and Audouin 2007: 48
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Early Sabaic | ||
| Script | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Text direction | Right-to-left | ||
| Text appearance | Recessed | ||
| Execution technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 6 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
GENERAL NOTES
| The editors propose a dating to the 5th-4th cent. BC, but on the palaeographical basis this text could also be slightly earlier and pertain to period A. |
TEXT
1 ʾlrʾb ḏ-S²rwn ʾnbʾyn hqny S¹—
2 mʿ mṣrbn w-rṯd ʾlrʾb S¹mʿ nf—
3 s¹-hw w-k(l wld)-(hw w)-(qn)y-hw w-ʾḏn-hw |
| 3 | The editors omit to transcribe and translate "w-qny-hw". |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 ʾlrʾb ḏ-S²rwn, from Inabbaʾ, dedicated to S¹mʿ 2 the altar and committed, ʾlrʾb, to S¹mʿ himself 3 and all his sons and his properties and his faculties. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Ṣanʿāʾ, The National Museum, YM 29828 |
| Support type | Artefact » Offering table » With bull head as gutter (mṣrb) |
| Material | Stone |
| Dimensions | h. 31, w. 81, th. 23 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Inabbaʾ |
| Ancient site | ʾnbʾ |
| Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī Madhab |
| Country | Yemen |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Arbach and Audouin 2007: 48-49 (photo) | Arbach, Mounir and Audouin, Rémy 2007. Collection of Epigraphic and Archaeological Artifacts from al-Jawf Sites. Ṣanʿâʾ National Museum. 2. Ṣanʿāʾ: UNESCO-SFD / Ṣanʿāʾ: National Museum. [Text in English and Arabic] |