Language | Ancient South Arabian » Ḥaḍramitic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
7-8 | [r]bbhn (Frantsouzoff). |
English | |
1 S²ʿrwd son of Yḥmʾl dedica- 2 ted to S¹yn ḏ-Myfʿn the inscrip- 3 tion which He had ordered him, under the authority of S¹y- 4 n ḏ-ʾlm and of the power of ʾlfm, and (he dedicated) a sta- 5 tue, according to the oracle of relief (= the favourable oracle), in order that S²ʿrwd 6 would promise them (the inscription and the statue) to S¹yn ḏ-Myfʿn, 7 in order to [re]cover from the illness he fell in, the ... 8 [... ...] 9 [... ... ] and he earned the good-will of S¹- 10 yn [... ...]; and S²ʿrwd 11 placed under the will of S¹yn his life, 12 and his faculties and his children, and 13 S¹yn rewarded him with His reward which is favourable. |
Deposit | Sayʾūn, Museum |
Support type | Artefact » Stela » Stela with framework |
Material | Stone |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Raybūn |
Ancient site | Rybn [oasis] |
Geographical area | Central Ḥaḍramawt |
Country | Yemen |
Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of S¹yn ḏ-Myfʿn |
Link to site record |
Frantsouzoff 1999 a: 34-43, pl. I | Frantsouzoff, Serguei A. 1999. Old Ḥaḍrāmi roots of an enigmatic Qurʾānic term. Pages 34-44 in M.N. Souvorov and M.A. Rodionov (eds). Cultural Anthropology of Southern Arabia: Hadramawt Revisited. St.-Petersburg: Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography. |
Frantsouzoff 2003 b: 52-53, pl. 6 | Frantsouzoff, Serguei A. 2003. En marge des inscriptions de Raybūn (remarques sur la grammaire, le lexique et le formulaire de la langue ḥaḍramoutique épigraphique). Arabia. Revue de Sabéologie, 1: 39-58. |