A New Sabaean Dedicating Inscription a study of its linguistic, political connotations and religious

Abstract

This study presents A New Sabaean Inscription; it is published for the first time. The content of this inscription indicates that it is one of the inscriptions of the dedications of humans for the god £lmqh, and the source of the Inscription is the city of Kamanhu (Kamna) of Ma'in, in Al-Jawf, Yemen, as it contains for the first time the name of (¥mkrb), as the king of the city of Kamna, and the inscription can be traced back to the eighth century BC.

The study was divided into an introduction followed by the text of the inscription in Arabic and Latin letters, then the meaning of the inscription in Arabic, a linguistic analysis of its words, an explanation of the political, religious and social implications of its content, and then a presentation of the most important results reached by this study.