Moussaieff 11
Bron 2004: 120, fig. 3
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Early Sabaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Cast | ||
| Measure of letters | 5 | ||
| Chronology |
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GENERAL NOTES
| The text can be dated back to the end of period A, beginning of B. |
TEXT
[... ...]
1 s²wrn ḏ-Ns²qm b-ḍ[r]
2 ʾtmn b-ʿṯtr w-b ʾ—
3 lmqh w-b ḏt Ḥmym
4 w-b ḏt Bʿdn w-b ḏ—
5 t Ns²qm w-b Ydʿʾl
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
[... ...] 1 ... of Ns²qm, during the war 2 of ʾtmn, by ʿṯtr and by 3 ʾlmqh and by ḏt Ḥmym 4 and by ḏt Bʿdn and by ḏt 5 Ns²qm and by Ydʿʾl. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Unknown, Moussaïeff collection, The object is part of the Moussaïeff Collection. (Private collection) |
| Support type | Artefact » Plaque » With framework |
| Material | Bronze |
| Measures | h. 38, w. 50 |
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | al-Bayḍāʾ |
| Ancient site | Ns²qm |
| Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī al-Buhayra |
| Country | Yemen |
| Notes | The origin from Ns²qm is hypothetic: it is inferred by the reference to the toponym in the text. |
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CULTURAL NOTES
The inscription seems to make reference to the same event of the "war of ʾtmn", recorded in the text DhM 383 by an inhabitant of the Sabaean city of ʿrrtm (al-Asāḥil, in the Jawf), who was appointed as viceroy of the city of Kamna by the king Ydʿʾl Byn.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Bron 2004: 121-123, 120 (fig. 3) | Bron, François 2004. Nouvelles inscriptions sudarabiques sur bronze. Pages 118-126 in Alexander V. Sedov (ed.). Scripta Yemenica. Issledovanija po Južnoj Aravii. Sbornik naučnyh statej v čest' 60-letija M.B. Piotrovskogo. Moscow: Vostochna. |
| Jändl 2009: 144 | Jändl, Barbara 2009. Altsüdarabische Inschriften auf Metall. (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 4). Tübingen: Wasmuth / Berlin: Wasmuth. |