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  • Editor(s)
    Ekaterina Gushchina
    Irene Rossi
  • First published
    2014-06-10
  • Last revised
    2026-09-05
  • DOI
    10.82194/dasi-epi-6611
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Gr 28 Gar AY 8


Grjaznevič 1978: fig. 45

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. Conjectural
Textual typologyLegal text - fragmentary (conjectural)

TEXT

marker


   1  [... ...]
   2  [... ...] bytm bytm w[... ...]
   3  [... ...](wm) ẓyt-hw w-kwn ḏn wtfn (b)-m[... ...]
   4  [... ...](s¹)ʾl Tʾlb bʿl Brrn w-(b)n k[... ...]
   5  [... ...](t)m s²ʿbn ḏ-t(s¹)ʾlw b-ʿm [... ...]
   6  [... ...]

Apparatus
2At the beginning: Garbini reads [... ...]tm klb[...]bytm, Lundin [... ...]l-s¹ʿd [.....] bytm.
At the end: Garbini reads w(f)[... ...].
3At the beginning: Garbini reads w-mẓyt-hw, but the divisor after the letter m is clearly visible on Grjaznevič's photo.
4At the end: Garbini reads ʾ instead of k.
5At the end: Garbini reads also tʾ[... ...].

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  [... ...]
   2  [... ...] house by house [... ...]
   3  [... ...] and his (?), this wtf-document was in [... ...]
   4  [... ...] Tʾlb Lord of Brrn asked [... ...]
   5  [... ...] the tribe, which they sought from [Him ... ...]
2bytm bytm: "house by house" or "each house separately" (Beeston 1972).
Beeston 1972 b: 396Beeston, Alfred F.L. 1972. Sabaean Marginalia. Annali dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli, 32/3: 394-400.

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeStone piece
MaterialStone
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Provenance
Modern siteẒafār
Ancient siteẒfr
Geographical areaẒafār
CountryYemen
FoundReemployed. In modern times
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Garbini 1970 b: 544, pl. XXXV/eGarbini, Giovanni 1970. Antichità yemenite II. Annali dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli, 30/4: 537-548.
Grjaznevič 1978: 37-38, fig. 45Grjaznevič, Petr A. 1978. Materiali ekspedicii P.A. Grjaznevičia 1966-1967 gg. Južnaja Aravija. Pamjiatniki Drevnej Istorii i Kultury. 1. Moscow: Glavnaja redakzija vostočnoj literatury.