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Kortler 4


Müller, Walter W. 1978 b: pl. VII/18

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

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

GENERAL NOTES

Bāfaqīh edited the text as Kortler 3. Inscription dated between the 1st c. BC-1st c. AD according to Robin (2010 a: 365).

TEXT

marker


   1  Ġs²nm bn
   2  Gnyt Ġ—
   3  lwnyn ʾḏ
   4  bny w-qyḥ bʾry
   5  ʾlh-hw ḏ-S¹m[wy]
   6  [b]-(Yġ)[rw]

Apparatus
Bāfaqīh transcribes the text on 5 lines.
1ḏ-Ġs²nm (Bāfaqīh).
3Bāfaqīh does not transcribe ʾḏ.
5-6ḏ-S¹m—wy (Bāfaqīh); [ḏ]-Yġ[rw] (Müller).

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  Ġs²nm son
   2  of Gnyt the
   3  Ġalwanite, when
   4  he built and plastered the two wells
   5  of his god ḏ-S¹mwy
   6  in Yġrw.

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeRock
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin and provenance
Modern siteUnknown (wādī Shuḍayf)
Ancient siteUnknown
Geographical areawādī Shuḍayf
CountryYemen
FoundIn situ
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Müller, Walter W. 1978 b: 125-127, pl. VII/18Müller, Walter W. 1978. Sabäische Felsinschriften von der jemenitishen Grenze zur Rubʿ al-Ḫālī. Neue Ephemeris für semitische Epigraphik, 3: 113-136.
Bāfaqīh 2001 a: 61Bāfaqīh, Muḥammad ʿA. 2001. Ḏū Samāwī wa-abʿād ḥarami-hi fī Šuḍayf. Raydān, 7: 55-65.
Stein 2007: 42Stein, Peter 2007. Materialien zur sabäischen Dialektologie: Das Problem des amiritischen ("haramischen") Dialektes. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 157: 13-47.
Robin 2010 a: 365Robin, Christian J. 2010. Ḥimyarite Kings on Coinage. Pages 357-381 in Martin Huth and Peter G. van Alfen (eds). Coinage of the Caravan Kingdoms. Studies in Ancient Arabian Monetization. New York: American Numismatic Society / New York: Oxford: Oxbow.