CSAI
Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions


INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic
ScriptAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Text directionRight-to-left
Text appearanceRecessed
Execution techniqueIncision
Measure of letters2.7
Textual typologyLegal text - fragmentary

TEXT

marker


   1  ḏkr bnw ḏ-Ḥbb w-bnw ʿnnn w-bn—
   2  w S²hrʿly w-bnw Mwqṣm w-ʾdm ḏ-Ḥ—
   3  bb w-ʾdm ʿnnn w-ʾdym[t-hm](w) ʾbʿ—
   4  l
w-ḥwr ʿrn Mwgln k-ʾl s³n-hmw
   5  [...] M(w)glm kl ʾns¹m [... ...]

Apparatus
3For bnw S²hrʿly, see Fa 30 bis, 4 and CIH 397, 1f, both from Ṣirwāḥ.

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  Declaration of the family ḏ-Ḥbb and ʿnnn and
   2  S²hrʿly and Mwqṣm and the vassals of ḏ-Ḥbb
   3  and the vassals of ʿnn and their subordinates, the masters
   4  and the settlers of the citadel Mwgln, that they are not authorized
   5  […] Mwglm, every man [… …]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeStone piece
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Provenance
Modern siteṢirwāḥ-Khawlān
Ancient siteṢrwḥ
Geographical areaṢirwāḥ
CountryYemen
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Höfner 1973: 42-43Höfner, Maria 1973. Inschriften aus Ṣirwāḥ, Ḫaulān. (I Teil). Sammlung Eduard Glaser. 8. (Sitzungsberichte der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 291/1). Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.