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CIH 607
By kind permission of Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
By kind permission of Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
Mordtmann and Mittwoch 1931: 244
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
| Script | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Text direction | Right-to-left | ||
| Text appearance | Recessed | ||
| Execution technique | Incision | ||
| Chronology |
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GENERAL NOTES
| CIH suggests that the inscription might come from Ṣirwāḥ. |
TEXT
1 [... ...]ʾl w-ʾḫy-hw↯ w-bny-hmw (b)[nw ... ...]
2 [... ...]-hw ṣrf s¹trʾs²↯ bn Rdʿm (w)[... ...]
3 [... ... ḏ]-Mlyt ḏ-ḫrf Mʿd↯krb bn N(s²ʾ)[krb ... ...]
4 [... ...]-hw wrḫm w-rs²w↯ ḏn wtfn k[... ...]
5 [... ...]ʾn bn Rdʿm l-ḏ-Ry↯mn kl ṣ[rf ... ...]
| Letter ḫ reversed. | |
| 2 | s¹trʾs² "engage in some type of commercial transaction" (Beeston et al. 1982). |
| 5 | hgb]ʾn (CIH). |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Wien, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Sem 15+Sem 16 |
| Support type | Stone piece |
| Material | Stone |
| Dimensions | h. 22, w. 34 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Unknown |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | Unknown |
| Country | Unknown |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Mordtmann and Mittwoch 1931: 244 | Mordtmann, Johannes H. and Mittwoch, Eugen 1931. Sabäische Inschriften. Rathjens-v. Wissmannsche Südarabischen-Reise. 1. Hamburg: Friederichsen, De Gruyter. |
| 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. |