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Ja 682 MaMB 315
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Early Sabaic | ||
| Script | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Text direction | Boustrophedon | ||
| Text appearance | Painted | ||
| Execution technique | Painting | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Legal text (conjectural) |
GENERAL NOTES
| Inscription written with red paint on a tomb wall. |
TEXT
1 Hlks¹mʿ bn Dbrn ʿs¹y fq—
2 ḥ ṯʿd(n ) (ʿ)s¹m(y)(((w)-s¹m(ʿ))) gwlm (b)-S²hr(((l)-(y)s²hr))
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Mārib |
| Support type | Architectural structure » Wall |
| Material | Stone |
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Maḥram Bilqīs |
| Ancient site | ʾwm |
| Geographical area | Maʾrib |
| Country | Yemen |
| Found | In situ |
| Archaeological context | Funerary context: Tomb |
| Notes | Tomb A of southern necropolis. |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Jamme 1962 a: 181-182 | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1962. Sabaean Inscriptions from Maḥram Bilqîs (Mârib). (Publications of the American Foundation for the Study of Man, 3). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press. |
| Pirenne 1969: 305-308 | Pirenne, Jacqueline 1969. Notes d'archéologie sud-arabe, VI. Le péristyle du temple de Mârib d'après les fouilles de 1951-52. Syria, 46: 293-318. |