Two amphoras found at burials outside the ancient city of Thāj, Saudi Arabia, bear inscriptions mentioning wine. The chemical analysis of the content of one of them confirms the presence of wine and more precisely as red wine. Contextual information from one of the graves suggests that wine was consumed as part of burial rituals. One inscription is in Aramaic and the other is in South Arabian cursive or zabūr—in fact the first attestation for this particular script in the core region of the so-called Hasaitic writing culture. Complementing the recent discoveries of zabūr inscriptions from Mleiha (Sharjah, UAE), this inscription buttresses our idea of the emergence of writing in East Arabia in the Hellenistic period.

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来自沙特阿拉伯 Thaj 的两个刻有铭文的酒壶

在沙特阿拉伯泰伊古城外的墓葬中发现的两个双耳瓶上刻有提及葡萄酒的铭文。其中一种成分的化学分析证实了葡萄酒的存在，更准确地说是红葡萄酒。其中一处坟墓的背景信息表明，葡萄酒是作为葬礼的一部分饮用的。一个铭文是阿拉姆语，另一个是南阿拉伯草书或zabūr——事实上，在所谓的哈赛文字文化的核心地区，这种特殊文字的第一个证明。作为最近在 Mleiha（阿联酋沙迦）发现的zabūr铭文的补充，该铭文支持了我们关于希腊化时期东阿拉伯文字出现的想法。