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Sabaean Inscriptions from Maḥram Bilqîs (Mârib). By A. JammeW. F. (Publications of the American Foundation for the Study of Man, Vol. III.) xix, 480 pp. (including 64 plates and 3 maps),+5 pp. errata. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press. 1962. $20. (Distributed in G.B. by Oxford University Press. £8.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1964

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page 133 note 1 Laroche, E., Les hiéroglyphes hittites I, p. 230Google Scholar translates arha makisha as 'j'ai brisé', equating it with w-šbrt in the parallel Phoenician text. But there appears to be an extra sentence in the hieroglyph version and the sense of the Phoenician 'I destroyed all the evil in the land' is rendered by the following sentence: 60 ff.