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YMN 1


ʿAbdallāh 1979 a: 66, fig. 1

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Southern Middle Sabaic
ScriptAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Text directionRight-to-left
Text appearanceRecessed
Execution techniqueIncision
Measure of letters6
Chronology
PeriodC. Conjectural
Textual typologyConstruction text

GENERAL NOTES

The inscription is parallel to a Qatabanic text, set alongside of it (YMN 2).

TEXT

marker


   1  Ḏrḥn bn ʾbḏḫr bn Ḫbz—
   2  n w-Ḏrft ẓrb w-rs¹ʿ w-br—
   3  ʾ w-hqḥ mqbr-hw Ṣnʿn w-kl
   4  ms³wd-hw w-mwrty-hw w-gyr-
   5  hw w-mbrʾt-hw l-qtbrm
   6  b-hw kl ʾḥrr w-ḥrtw b—
   7  yt-hw Ġyln

Apparatus
5the infinitive l-qtbrm has the ending -m, sometimes attested in Qatabanic, but not in Sabaic.

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  Ḏrḥn, son of ʾbḏḫr, he of Ḫbz-
   2  n and ḏ-Rft possessed, constructed
   3  and completed his grave Ṣnʿn, all its hall
   4  and its walls and its construction
   5  in order to bury in it
   6  the free men and women
   7  of his family Ġyln.
ʿAbdallāh 1979 a: 52ʿAbdallāh, Yūsuf M. 1979. Mudawwana al-nuqūš al-yamaniyya al-qadīma. Dirāsāt Yamaniyya, 2: 47-75.

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeRock
Dimensionsh. 46, w. 41.
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin and provenance
Modern siteBayt al-Aḥraq
Ancient siteGrw
Geographical areaRadmān
CountryYemen
FoundIn situ
Archaeological contextFunerary context: Tomb Ṣnʿn
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

ʿAbdallāh 1979 a: 48-51, pl. 1ʿAbdallāh, Yūsuf M. 1979. Mudawwana al-nuqūš al-yamaniyya al-qadīma. Dirāsāt Yamaniyya, 2: 47-75.
Robin 1991-1993 f: 99Robin, Christian J. 1991-1993 [1992]. Les langues de la péninsule arabique. Pages 89-111 in Christian J. Robin (ed.). L'Arabie antique de Karibʾîl à Mahomet. Nouvelles données sur l'histoire des Arabes grâces aux inscriptions. (Revue du Monde Musulman et de la Mediterranée, 61). Aix-en-Provence: Édisud.
Stein 2012: 49Stein, Peter 2012. Aspekte von Sprachbewusstsein im antiken Südarabien. Pages 29-59 in Johannes Thon, Giuseppe Veltri and Ernst-Joachim Waschke (eds). Sprachbewusstsein und Sprachkonzepte im Alten Orient, Alten Testament und rabbinischen Judentum. (Orientwissenschaftliche Hefte, 30). Halle: Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Regionalstudien der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg.