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Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions

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  • Editor(s)
    Maria Gorea
    Cristina Pappalardo
    Alessandra Avanzini
  • First published
    2019-05-10
  • DOI
    10.82194/dasi-epi-9023
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Gl 1598 A 496


Höfner 1981: pl. III, fig. 2

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 letters2.5
Chronology
PeriodC. Conjectural
Textual typologyConstruction text - fragmentary

TEXT

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   1  [... ...](ʾ)yt ʾw[.]ḍ w-bny-hw [... ...]
   2  [... ...]m bnw Mṯwʾm yfʿw b[... ...]
   3  [... ...] bytn (t)s¹(m)ʾn ḏt thwn [... ...]
   4  [... ...](n) ḏ[.]trm w-b-tḥt (ḥ)ṯ[.]r b(n) [... ...]
   5  [... ...]m w-brʾw w-hwṯwr kl (ʾ)[... ...]
   6  [... ...]ṭ[... ...] w-l hs²q(r) [... ...]

Apparatus
3ts¹mʾn may be either the name of the building (formed on a verb s¹mʾ, related to Arabic s¹mʾ "to be elevate, high", which suits with high construction), or a form of the verb s¹my. In the first case, ḏ-thwn is a verb from the root hwn (in Mehri, hawīn "crumbling"). In the second case, Thwn is the name of the building.

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  [… ...] ʾw[.]ḍ and his sons [… …]
   2  [… ...] of the family Mṯwʾm, they rised up [… ...]
   3  [… ...] the house Ts¹mʾn which was in bad shape (?) [… ...]
   4  [… ...] and beneath [… …]
   5  [… …] and they built and laid the foundations of all […]
   6  [… …] completed [… ...]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeStone piece
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Provenance
Modern sitean-Nakhlat al-Ḥamrāʾ
Ancient siteYklʾ
Geographical areaal-Ḥadaʾ
CountryYemen
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Höfner 1981: 17-18, pl. III, 2Höfner, Maria 1981. Sabäische Inschriften. (Letzte Folge). Sammlung Eduard Glaser. 14. (Sitzungsberichte der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 378). Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.