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MAFRAY-Ḥāṣī 5


Robin 2001 b: 219, fig. 22-23

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Southern Middle Sabaic
ScriptAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Text directionRight-to-left
Text appearanceRecessed
Execution techniqueIncision
Chronology
PeriodD
Start date - BCE/CE322 CE
End date - BCE/CE342 CE
Date accuracyApproximate
Textual typologyConstruction text

TEXT

marker


   1  S¹ʿdm Yhs¹kr w-bny-hw ʾs¹ʿd Yzd w-Nm[rn ʾw]—
   2  kn w-Mʿdkrb Ymgd w-Ḫwlym Yrm bny Hṣb—
   3  ḥ w-Yʿgf ʾqwl s²ʿbn Mḍḥym brʾw w-gdr s¹—
   4  r-hmw ʾkbdy mḥgr ʾfrs¹-hmw ʾḏkrn w-wzʾ—
   5  w hqs²bw b-ws¹ṭ-hw ṯty ḥgltny[w wrḫ]—
   6  n Mḏrʾn ḏ-l-ḫms¹t w-s¹ṯhy [w-ṯlṯ mʾtm]

Apparatus
1-2integration on Shirjān 3-4, 5.
2it is possible to read Ymld instead of Ymgd.

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  S¹ʿdm Yhs¹kr and his sons ʾs¹ʿd Yzd and Nmrn ʾw-
   2  kn and Mʿdkrb Ymgd and Ḫwlym Yrm Banū Hṣb-
   3  ḥ and Yʿgf ʾqwl of Maḍḥī, built and fenced their valley
   4  ʾkbdy, the grazing of their males horses; then they constructed again
   5  in the middle of this two fences. The month
   6  Mḏrʾn three hundred and sixty-five.

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeRock
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin and provenance
Modern siteḤaṣī
Ancient siteḤ[ṣy] / Ḥ[ṣym]
Geographical areaal-Bayḍāʾ
CountryYemen
FoundIn situ
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Müller, Walter W. 1977 b: 734-735Müller, Walter W. 1977. Ergebnisse neuer epigraphischer Forschungen im Jemen. Pages 731-735 in Wolfgang Voigt (ed.). XIX. Deutscher Orientalistentag vom 28. September bis 4. Oktober 1975 in Freiburg im Breisgau. Vorträge. (Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 3). Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner.
Robin 2001 b: 192-194, fig. 22-25Robin, Christian J. 2001. Les inscriptions de Ḥaṣī. Raydān, 7: 179-223.
Müller, Walter W. 2010: 48Müller, Walter W. 2010. Sabäische Inschriften nach Ären datiert. Bibliographie, Texte und Glossar. (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission, 53). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.