CSAI
Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions

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  • Editor(s)
    Maria Gorea
    Giulia Buono
    Alessandra Avanzini
  • First published
    2016-02-08
  • Last revised
    2019-10-02
  • DOI
    10.82194/dasi-epi-8929
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Nihm/Barrān 4 Gl 1388; A 362


Frantsouzoff 2016: Fasc. B, 32, pl. 23

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic
ScriptAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Text directionRight-to-left
Measure of letters4.5-5
Chronology
PeriodD. Conjectural

TEXT

marker


      [... ...]
   1  [... ...] (ḏ)-k-(g)zmw gzm ʿṯtr S²rqn b(n) [... ...]
   2  [... ...] (b)-ʾns¹m nkrm [... ...]
   3  [... ...]fn hḏrn rs²wm k-byt bytm [... ...]

Apparatus
3Tschinkowitz excludes the reading k-byt; the preposition k is attested in Minaic. In Ar. kby means "burn incense".

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  [... ...] when they swore an oath to ʿṯtr S²rqn [... ...]
   2  [... ...] a foreign man [... ...]
   3  [... ...] a priest [... ...]
3Frantsouzoff 2016: 100 transaltes "inciter à faire pénitence, un prêtre dans chaque temple (?)" hḏrn from NḎR.
Frantsouzoff 2016: 100-101Frantsouzoff, Serguei A. 2016. Nihm. Fasc. A: Les documents. Fasc. B: Les planches. With contribution by Christian J. Robin. Inventaire des inscriptions sudarabiques. 8. Paris: De Boccard. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres; Collège de France, Laboratoire des Études Sémitiques anciennes; Académie des sciences de Russie Institut des manuscrits orientaux]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeStone piece
Dimensionsh. 27, w. 45
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin
Modern siteal-ʿĀdī
Ancient siteBrn
Geographical areaNihm
CountryYemen
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Tschinkowitz 1969: 14-15Tschinkowitz, Helga 1969. Kleine Fragmente. Sammlung Eduard Glaser. 6. (Sitzungsberichte der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 261/4). Vienna: Böhlau in Kommission.
Frantsouzoff 2016: 100-101, pl. 23Frantsouzoff, Serguei A. 2016. Nihm. Fasc. A: Les documents. Fasc. B: Les planches. With contribution by Christian J. Robin. Inventaire des inscriptions sudarabiques. 8. Paris: De Boccard. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres; Collège de France, Laboratoire des Études Sémitiques anciennes; Académie des sciences de Russie Institut des manuscrits orientaux]