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Fa 112 + Fa 113 + Fa 114 + Fa 115 (=Fa 5)
Ahmed Fakhry
Fakhry 1952: iii, pl. XXXVIII
Fakhry 1952: iii, pl. XXXVIII
Ahmed Fakhry
Fakhry 1952: iii, pl. XXXVIII
Fakhry 1952: iii, pl. XXXVIII
Fa 112
Jürgen Schmidt
Schmidt 1987: pl. 17/a
Jürgen Schmidt
Schmidt 1987: pl. 17/a
Fa 114
Jürgen Schmidt
Schmidt 1987: pl. 15/c
Jürgen Schmidt
Schmidt 1987: pl. 15/c
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
| Script | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Text direction | Right-to-left | ||
| Text appearance | Recessed | ||
| Execution technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 24 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Construction text (conjectural) |
TEXT
1 Wddʾl w-ʾḫy-hw bny ḏ-S¹ḥr s²ʾmw w-[qnyw by]tn Ygr w-kl ṣrḥt-hw w-gblt-hw [... ...]
| 1 | The integration [w-qny] is not accepted by A. Jamme (Jamme 1976: 8). |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Wddʾl and his brothers, of the family S¹ḥr, bought and [acquired] the house Ygr and all its upper rooms and his cultivated land [... ...]. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Stone piece |
| Material | Stone |
| Dimensions | h. 30, w. 110 (Fa 112); h. 24, w. 79, th. 28 (Fa 113); w. 129 (Fa 114) |
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Maʾrib |
| Ancient site | Mryb / Mrb |
| Geographical area | Maʾrib |
| Country | Yemen |
| Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
| Archaeological context | Urban context: Private house Ygr |
| Notes | Found inside a new building of the government. |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Fakhry 1952: i, 117, n. 161-164, fig 107 (facsimile); iii pl. XXXVIII | Fakhry, Ahmed 1952. An archaeological Journey to Yemen (March-May 1947). (3 vols), Cairo: Government Press. |
| Ryckmans, Gonzague 1952: ii, 66 | Ryckmans, Gonzague 1952. Epigraphical texts. Ahmed Fakhry, An archaeological Journey to Yemen (March-May 1947). ii. Cairo: Government Press. |
| Jamme 1976: 7-9 | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1976. Carnegie Museum 1974-75 Yemen Expedition. (Special Publication, 2). Pittsburgh: Carnegie Museum of Natural History. |
| Schmidt 1987: 138-139, pls 15/c, 17/a | Schmidt, Jürgen 1987. Antiken aus dem Stadtgebiet von Mārib. Archäologische Berichte aus dem Yemen, 4: 131-142. |