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Capuzzi
Capuzzi 1969: 423
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Southern 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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| Textual typology | Construction text - fragmentary (conjectural) |
GENERAL NOTES
| Despite the fragmentary state, the mention of ʿṯtr S²rqn and of Ys¹rm Yhnʿm (probably the father of S²mr Yhrʿs²) lets us date the inscription at the end of the third century AD, after the conquest of Ḥaḍramawt (see the king's title at the end). Palaeographically, it is noteworthy the shape of the letter r, seen in some inscriptions of the southern plateau (see BynM 410). For this reason, the inscription is hypothetically inserted in the Corpus of Southern Middle Sabaic. |
TEXT
[... ...]
1 [... ... ]ḏ-Mlḥyn ṯwb[... ... ]
2 [... ...]w mʿrbynm bn[ ... ...]
3 [... ... m]qm ʿ<ṯ>tr [S²]rqn w-b-rdʾ[ ... ...]
4 [... ...]n Ys¹rm Yhnʿm w-bn[... ... ]
5 [... ... ](Ḥḍ)rm(t) [w-](Ymnt) [... ...]
| 4 | The letter n of Yhnʿm is reversed. We can perhaps integrate [... ... b]n Ys¹rm Yhnʿm w-bn[-hw ... ...]. The king in the lacuna might be S²mr Yhrʿs². |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Unknown |
| Support type | Stone piece |
| Material | Stone |
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Unknown (Yemen) |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Country | Yemen |
| Notes | The object was photographed by Antonino E. Parrinello in Yemen. |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Capuzzi 1969: 419-422, pl. 1 | Capuzzi, Anna 1969. Yasir Yuhanʿim in una nuova iscrizione sabea. Annali dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli, 19/3: 419-422. |