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MAFRAY-ad-Durayb 7


INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Early Sabaic
ScriptAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Text directionRight-to-left
Text appearanceRecessed
Execution techniqueIncision
Chronology
PeriodA

GENERAL NOTES

This is probably a fragment of a dedicatory text.

TEXT

marker


   1  [... ... ]ḏ Ḥffm rṯd ʿṯtr

Apparatus
1Ḥffm is probably a group name.
The text could be incomplete on both sides.

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeStone piece
MaterialStone
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Provenance
Modern sitead-Durayb
Ancient siteUnknown
Geographical areawādī Raghwān
CountryYemen
FoundReemployed. In modern times
NotesIt is not sure if the inscription originally comes from ad-Durayb (for the issue of the provenance of the texts found in the village, see the opposite opinion by Robin and Ryckmans, Jacques 1980: 135 and Schiettecatte 2011: 102).
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Robin and Ryckmans, Jacques 1980: 147-148, pl. 16/aRobin, Christian J. and Ryckmans, Jacques 1980. Les inscriptions de al-Asâḥil, ad-Durayb et Ḫirbat Saʿûd. (Mission Archéologique Française en République Arabe du Yémen: prospection des Antiquités Préislamiques, 1980). Raydān, 3: 113-182.