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Gr 58 Shibām Suḫaym 8
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 | 3.8 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text - fragmentary |
TEXT
1 Bfrm w-ʾws¹l w-bn-[hw ...]-
2 w w-ʿs¹m bn ʾqlʾ ʾdm bn[y ...hqnyw]
3 Tʾlb Rymm bʿl Kbdm ṣlm[n ...]
4 hgbʾn mṣdq s¹rq bn byt-hm[w ...]
5 [...]bd [...]y w-ʿqm w-l-ḏt y[zʾn ...]
| 1 | The suffix pronoun could be singular, dual or plural. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Brfm and ʾs¹ʾl and his (?) son [...] 2 and ʿs¹m, son of ʾqlʾ, subjects of [... dedicated to] 3 Tʿlb Rymm, lord of Kbdmn the statue [...] 4 to make return the document, which was stolen from their house 5 [...] and He may again [... ...] |
| 1 | The suffix pronoun could be singular, dual or plural. |
| 4 | The translation is hypothetical, see the morphological similar construct in CIH 30, 4-5: mqṭr s¹rq. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Stone piece |
| Material | Stone |
| Dimensions | h. 25, w. 31, th. 15 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Shibām al-Ghirās / Shibām Sukhaym (Al-ʿAṣarī, surroundings of Shibām Sukhaym) |
| Ancient site | S²bmm |
| Geographical area | Banī Ḥushaysh |
| Country | Yemen |
| Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
| Archaeological context | Urban context: Private house |
| Notes | Reemployed on the right part of the wall of a staircase. |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Bauer and Lundin 1998: 11-12 | Bauer, Gleb M. and Lundin (=Loundine), Avraam G. 1998. Pamjatniki Drevnej Istorii i Kultury. Južnaja Aravija. Part 2: Epigraficheskie pamjiatniki drevnego Jemena. 2. St.-Petersburg: Zentr "Peterburgskoe vostokovedenie". [Akademia nauk, Institut Vostokovedenija, Sankt-Peterburgskiy filial] |