CSAI
Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions

Indexes
Tools
Record’s details
CC BY 4.0
The above license applies to the data in this record, but not to any images displayed. The images are the property of third parties and are either used with permission or reproduced from publications (see the credits below each image).

RES 4095 Ghul-YU 103; Q 113


By kind permission of GOAM

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Qatabanic » Central Qatabanic
ScriptAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Text directionRight-to-left
Text appearanceRecessed
Execution techniqueIncision
Measure of letters5.3
Chronology
PeriodB
Textual typologyConstruction text - fragmentary

GENERAL NOTES

Kitchen 2000, 523 reports a AM number 60.1302 which does not appear in the catalogue where instead the AM siglum is 860A.

TEXT

marker


   1  [... ...tq](d)mw w-ḥrg l-
   2  [... ...b](y)tn Ḥ(q)lm by—
   3  [... ... w-b Ḥwk](m) w-b ḏt Ṣntm
   4  [... ...]

Apparatus
4in this line other pantheon divinities were invoked.

OBJECT INFORMATION

DepositAden, The National Museum, NAM 1623=AM 860A
Support typeStone piece
MaterialStone
Dimensionsh. 16.5, w. 18, th. 6.5
Link to object record

ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin
Modern siteUnknown
Ancient siteUnknown
Geographical areaUnknown
CountryUnknown
NotesThe formula tqdmw w-ḥrg "directed and supervised" is found in construction texts coming from the territories lying south-west of Timnaʿ, i.e. from wādī al-Jūba to wādī Ḥarīb (see RES 3552, RES 3553 and RES 4328 and the recently published text Cox 4).
A provenance of RES 4095 from those areas is also confirmed by the final invocation, where Ḥwkm is probably mentioned before ḏt Ṣntm, fact which seems exclude the capital Timnaʿ as origin of the inscription.
Link to site record

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Hayajneh 2004 a: 143-144, fig. 53Hayajneh, Hani 2004. Eine Sammlung von fragmentarischen altsüdarabischen Inschriften aus dem Jemen. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 15/1: 120-148.