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A Sabaean Boundary Formula

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

A. F. L. Beeston
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In the of the Fuad I University, vol. 9, part 1, May, 1947, pp. 25–27, Dr. K. Y. Nami has published an interesting boundary inscription now in the possession of that University. In his treatment of the inscription, however, he has overlooked the fact that a parallel text is to be found in the Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum, iv, 949. This is unfortunate, since a correlation of the two texts is most helpful in understanding the formula contained in them.

The following are the two texts, with the renderings proposed by Nami for his inscription and by Rhodokanakis for the Corpus text.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , February 1949 , pp. 1 - 3
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1949

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page 1 note 1 That he has done so is evident from his comment on the word 'tbn:

page 1 note 2 N. Rhodokanakis, “ Sieben Inschriften des III. Bandes des IV. Teils des Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum ”, Anzeiger der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, 70. Jahrg., pp. 48–9.

page 2 note 1 A fragment of a further inscription containing a similar formula is found in Corpus, iv, 911.

page 2 note 2 It may be noted that there is no sign of the t in the photograph which he has published.

page 2 note 3 It is possible that to the old-South-Arabian mind the two ideas were practically synonymous.

page 2 note 4 Repertoire d'ipigraphie semtiique 3104.

page 2 note 5 Op. cit., p. 48.

page 2 note 6 Though possibly both in that instance and in our text the verb is actually passive.