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Be 9 CSAI I, 43
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Qatabanic » Central Qatabanic | ||
| Script | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Text direction | Right-to-left | ||
| Text appearance | Recessed | ||
| Execution technique | Incision | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Construction text | ||
| Royal inscription | Yes |
GENERAL NOTES
| Beeston gives a description of the palaeographic features, typical of period C: "elegant script, of the most florescent period of Qataban; r with retroflex curves, top and bottom strokes of s² almost horizontal, as also with m; marked spikes to the f. The hampes terminate in an exaggeratedly splayed foot, in some places actually rendered as a fork; ʿ very small; w oval and only a little larger than ʿ". |
TEXT
1 [S²hr Y]gl Yhr[gb] bn Hwfʿm Yhnʿm mk[rb Qtbn ... ...]
2 [... ...Ḥ]wkm ḏ-ʾmr w-S²mr qẓr qyn rs²w ʿm[m... ...]((ʿm[m... ...]))
3 | b-ḏbḥtm w-b-ʿm ʾḍfrm b-by[t... ...]
4 s¹wṯr w-s¹tbʿ w-s¹s²qr hgr-s¹ Rʿ[... ...]
5 [... ...]r w-s¹nbṭ bʾr-s¹ [.]ṭyl [... ...]
| 5 | [s¹bḥ]r, and bʾr-s¹ [M]ṭyl (Beeston). |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 S²hr Ygl Yhrgb, son of Hwfʿm Yhnʿm, mukarrib of Qatabān [... ...] 2 Ḥwkm ḏ-ʾmr and S²mr, Collector, qyn, Priest of ʿmm (or, great Priest) [... ...] 3 [... ...] in charge of sacrifices and of animals (for sacrifices) in the temple [... ...] 4 he laid the foundation and finished and completed his town Rʿ[... ...] 5 [... ...]and dug its well [.]ṭyl[... ...] |
| Avanzini 2004 a | Avanzini, Alessandra 2004. Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions I-III. Qatabanic, Marginal Qatabanic, Awsanite Inscriptions. (Arabia Antica, 2). Pisa: Edizioni Plus-Università di Pisa. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Stone piece |
| Material | Stone |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | al-Wusṭa |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Country | Yemen |
| Archaeological context | Urban context |
| Link to site record |
CULTURAL NOTES
The occurrence of the title of mukarrib in Qataban for the last time in the C period is historically significant. S²hr Ygl Yhrgb could have been the last mukarrib still bearing the political and religious title established many centuries before.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Beeston 1962 a: 50-51 | Beeston, Alfred F.L. 1962. Epigraphic and Archaeological Gleanings from South Arabia. Oriens Antiquus, 1: 41-52. |