^{page 2 note 1} R.E.S., no. 4935. Dr. Serjeant informs me that the correct form of the modern name is 'Am'ādiya, not 'Im'ādiya, and that it is to be explained as a compound of 'am, known as a determinative in South Arabic dialects of to-day, and 'ādiya “ancient”.

^{page 2 note 2} See Le Muséon, lii (1939), pp. iv, no. 220.Google Scholar

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^{page 2 note 4} Ryckmans, G., in Le Muséon, lii (1939), pp. 69–70.Google Scholar

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^{page 3 note 1} See the bibliography and commentary in R.E.S., no. 4918 bis.

^{page 3 note 2} Cf. R.E.S., 4685.Google Scholar

^{page 4 note 1} R.E.S., no. 2689.

^{page 4 note 2} Ethnographic und Geographie des alten Orients, Munich, 1924, S.164, Anm. 3, and also S. 167, Anm. 3.Google Scholar

^{page 4 note 3} Le Muséon, lxii (1949), pp. 87–103, nos. 405–430.Google Scholar

^{page 4 note 4} Ry., no. 406.

^{page 4 note 5} Ry., no. 426.

^{page 5 note 1} Introductory note to Ry., no. 407.

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^{page 6 note 1} The two copies of Shaikh Fuad Hamza read ḥbšt “Abyasinians”, instead of ḥḍrmwt. Mr. Philby himself had the opportunity of copying the two inscriptions of Masil, Wadi on 26th 05, 1950Google Scholar. In the inscription of 'Ab-karib the reading is undoubtedly ḥḍrmwt. In the inscription of Ma'ad-karib the copy of Philby has ḥb. t; the b is at the end of line 1, the two final letters of line 2 have disappeared, and the mutilation may extend to the lower part of the final letter of line 1. In that case the mutilated ḍ would appear as ab. The two first letters of lines 2 and 3 are also mutilated. Thus, it would be possible to read ḥbšt, but I should be inclined to conjecture, with Philby, ḥḍ‖[rmw]t, or perhaps ḥḍ‖[rmw]t. The conjectures due to reading ḥbšt the copies of Fuad Hamza now seem to me the consequence of incorrect data. The inscription of Ma'ad-karib is dated in the year 631 of the Sabsean era, that is A.d. 516. I have recently published the two inscriptions in Le Muséon, liv (1951), p. 97–106, nos. 445, 446.Google Scholar

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^{page 10 note 1} See now Tawfik, M., Les monuments de Ma'īn (Yemen) [Arabic Text] (Publications de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie dn Caire. Etudes sud-arabiques: Tome I), Cairo, 1951.Google Scholar

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