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Gr 157 Naqīl Kuḥl
Bauer and Lundin 1998: 145/a
Bauer and Lundin 1998: 145/a
Bauer and Lundin 1998: photo 145 b
Bauer and Lundin 1998: photo 145 v
Bauer and Lundin 1998: photo 145 g
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 | 11.5 | ||
| Chronology |
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TEXT
1 S²rḥm ʾymn bn Btʿ w-Hmdn
2 ṣd ʾʿrr Ṣwln w-hrg ʿdy ḏ-s¹ṭr
3 ḏn s¹ṭrn ṯlṯt ʾʾlfm wʿlm
4 w-ʿd ṯlṯ mʾt w-ʿd s¹bʿ mʾt
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 S²rḥm ʾymn, of the family Btʿ and Hmdm, 2 hunted on the mountains of Ṣwln and he killed, until he wrote 3 this inscription, three thousand ibexes 4 and again three hundred and again seven hundred. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Rock |
| Material | Stone |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Ẓafār dhī-Bīn |
| Ancient site | Ẓfr |
| Geographical area | dhī-Bīn |
| Country | Yemen |
| Found | In situ |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Robin 1979 a: 183 | Robin, Christian J. 1979. Mission archéologique et épigraphique française au Yémen du Nord en automne 1978. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres: 174-202. |
| Bauer and Lundin 1998: 38-39, photos 145 a, b, v, g | 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] |