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Gar BSE
By kind permission of S. Rijziger
By kind permission of S. Rijziger
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Late Sabaic | ||
| Script | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Text direction | Right-to-left | ||
| Text appearance | Raised | ||
| Execution technique | Incision | ||
| Chronology |
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| Royal inscription | Yes |
TEXT
1 ʾbkrb ʾs¹ʿd w-ʾḫ-hw Ḏrʾʾmr ʾymn w-b—
2 ny-hw Ḥs³n Yʾmn w-Mʿdkrb
3 Ynʿm w-Ḥgr ʾyfʿ ʾmlk
4 S¹bʾ w-ḏ-Rydn w-Ḥḍrmwt w-Ymnt
| 4 | for Ymnt see Robin 2013: 131-133. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Stone piece |
| Material | Stone |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Mankath |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | Ẓafār |
| Country | Yemen |
| Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
| Link to site record |
| Modern site | Ẓafār |
| Ancient site | Ẓfr |
| Geographical area | Ẓafār |
| Country | Yemen |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Garbini 1970 a: 163-164, pl. II/b | Garbini, Giovanni 1970. Una bilingue sabeo-ebraica da Ẓafar. Annali dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli, 30/2: 153-165. |
| Gajda 1997: 7-8 | Gajda, Iwona 1997. Ḥimyar gagné par le monothéisme (IVe-VIe siècle de l'ère chrétienne). Ambitions et ruine d'un royaume de l'Arabie méridionale antique. (Université d'Aix-en-Provence). |
| Robin 2013 | Robin, Christian J. 2013. À propos de Ymnt et Ymn: « nord » et « sud », « droite » et « gauche », dans les inscriptions de l'Arabie antique. Pages 119-140 in Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet, Catherine Fauveaud and Iwona Gajda (eds). Entre Carthage et l’Arabie heureuse. Mélanges offerts à François Bron. (Orient & Méditerranée, 12). Paris: de Boccard. |