The discovery of three fragmentary Sabaic inscriptions in Thulā, Yemen, sheds new light on the so far unknown pre-Islamic history of the town. The mention of a clan name ‘of Thulā’ (ḏ-Ṯly) in one of these texts, dating from about the first century BC, makes it probable that all these inscriptions in fact originate from the site. Moreover, two previously published inscriptions from Thulā, the provenance of which had been doubted, can now clearly be attributed to the same corpus, which testifies to a pre-Islamic occupation from the early Sabaic period onwards.

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古代图拉存在的第一个碑文证据

在也门 Thulā 发现的三块残缺的 Sabaic 铭文为该镇迄今为止未知的前伊斯兰历史提供了新的线索。其中一个文本中提到了一个氏族名称“Thulā”（ḏ-Ṯly），大约可以追溯到公元前一世纪，这使得所有这些铭文实际上都起源于该遗址。此外，先前发表的两篇来自图拉的铭文，其出处受到怀疑，现在可以清楚地归因于同一个语料库，这证明了从早期的萨拜克时期开始的前伊斯兰占领。