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Gr 104 Shibām-Suḫaym 56
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic |
| Script | Ancient South Arabian |
| Script typology | Monumental writing |
| Text direction | Right-to-left |
| Measure of letters | 3.5 |
| Textual typology | Legal text - fragmentary |
TEXT
1 wnʿt ymṯn w [.] yr w-s¹twḥbn f-ʾw ||
2 hw ḥrw w-ḥṣq ʿtgs²n b-qdmy ḏn wtfn ġy [...l-w]—
3 ld wldm w-ʿḏr ʿḏrm w-ḥln ṯʿdt myṯ w
4 w-nbḥm ʿdy Trʿt w-s²nqn ʿdy ms²rqn
5 [... ...]
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Stone piece |
| Material | Stone |
| Dimensions | h. 28, w. 45, th. 24 |
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Shibām al-Ghirās / Shibām Sukhaym |
| Ancient site | S²bmm |
| Geographical area | Banī Ḥushaysh |
| Country | Yemen |
| Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
| Notes | From the village of al-Gīrās, near Shibām Sukhaym. Reemployed in the southern wall of a well near the house of al-Ḥājj ʿAlī Ṣāliḥ Ḥamīd. |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Bauer and Lundin 1998: 23 | 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] |