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MAFRAY-Ḥisāya 1


Robin 1991: 178, fig. 17

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Southern Middle Sabaic
ScriptAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Text directionRight-to-left
Text appearanceRecessed
Execution techniqueIncision
Chronology
PeriodC
Textual typologyConstruction text - fragmentary

GENERAL NOTES

The text is partly deleted on the left and down because of the water.

TEXT

marker


   1  Frʿm bn Rtʿ tqdm l-mrʾy-
   2  hw Wtrm Yrtʿ w-Lḥyʿt (Br)—
   3  yn bny Mʿhr w-ḏ-Ḫw(ln) [ʿs²](q ḥrt w)-(nqb)—
   4  [t yʿ]lwn ʾmwh [...]n [... ...]

Apparatus
2Lḥyʿt instead of Lḥyʿṯt as a regional variant (Stein 2003 a: 23, fn. 38).

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  Frʿm ibn Rtʿ directed for his two
   2  lords Wtrm Yrtʿ and Lḥyʿt Br-
   3  yn, banū Maʿāhir and ḏ-Ḫwln, the realization of the dam and the
   4  channels which bring up the waters [... ...].

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeRock
Dimensionsw. 100 (l. 1)
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin and provenance
Modern siteUnknown (al-Miʿsāl)
Ancient siteUnknown
Geographical areaal-Miʿsāl
CountryYemen
FoundIn situ
Archaeological contextAgricultural irrigation context
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Robin 1991: 178, fig. 17Robin, Christian J. 1991. ʿAmdān Bayyin Yuhaqbid, roi de Sabaʾ et de dū-Raydān. Pages 167-205 in Études sud-arabes. Recueil offert à Jacques Ryckmans. (Publications de l'Institut Orientaliste de Louvain, 39). Louvain-La-Neuve: Université Catholique de Louvain, Institut Orientaliste.
Stein 2003 aStein, Peter 2003. Untersuchungen zur Phonologie und Morphologie des Sabäischen. (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 3). Rahden: Marie Leidorf GmbH / Westf.: Marie Leidorf GmbH.