Corpus of South Arabian. Inscriptions. Qatabanic texts

The volumes of the Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions all fall into a specific pattern, namely a historical-linguistic introduction, and editing of the texts with translations except for texts which are fragmentary. The objective of the project is to publish a sizeable part of the South Arabian corpus with some brief intro introductions to highlight the cultural and linguistic aspects of the corpus collected. The texts are split by text typology into four major subgroups: construction inscriptions, dedicatory inscriptions, legal inscriptions and anthroponyms. In the section dedicated to anthroponyms the author has attempted to incorporate texts which were also conceived by the ancient author as being simple onomastic texts, such as those found on funeral stelas and on the statuettes. Within each textual typology the inscriptions are subdivided into chronological phases, except texts containing anthroponyms, which are listed with no chronological classification.