Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic |
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian |
Script typology | Monumental writing |
Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
English | |
1 Rṯd [... ...] and his brother 2 Whbʾwm and his sons 3 S¹ʿdʾwm, ʾbkrb and Whbʾl, of the family 4 ḏ-Mḥfdn, from Rym, vassals of the king, set up a stela (for) 5 their lord master of Ḥrnm, as they promised Him 6 when they layed out plantations [in] their land of Mḥfdn - 7 and, in fact, the plantations were protected - and so that He should grant 8 them copious and healthy harvests and crops; 9 by ʾlmqh master of Ḥrnm. |
Support type | Unknown |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Maʾrib |
Ancient site | Mryb / Mrb |
Geographical area | Maʾrib |
Country | Yemen |
Archaeological context | Religious context |
Link to site record |
Grohmann 1914: 6, fig. 1 | Grohmann, Adolf 1914. Göttersymbole und Symboltiere auf Südarabischen Denkmälern. (Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 58/1). Vienna: In Kommission bei Alfred Hölder. |
Höfner and Rhodokanakis 1936: 220-221 | Höfner, Maria and Rhodokanakis, Nikolaus 1936. Zur Interpretation altsüdarabischer Inschriften III. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 43: 211-234. |