Ja 418 Ry 197; RES 4726
By kind permission of Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale, Rome
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 4 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text - fragmentary |
GENERAL NOTES
| Note the palaeography of the text, with very large letters w. The chronology proposed is very hypothetic. |
TEXT
[... ...]
1 [ṣl]mn ḥg-n s¹t(w)[kl]-
2 [hw] b-ḏt ṣdq-hw T(ʾ)—
3 [l](b) b-kl ʾmlʾ s¹tml—
4 [ʾ ]b-ʿm-hw w-l-ḏt yz—
5 ʾ ṣdq ʿbd-hw Ṯw—
6 [. ](b)-kl ʾmlʾ ys¹tml—
7 [ʾn ... ...] (w)-(l)[ ...]
8 [... ...]
| 1 | s¹t(w)[fy] (Jamme). |
| 5-6 | Possibly Ṯwb or Ṯwr. |
| 6-8 | ys¹tml[ʾn b-ʿ](m)-[hw ](w-l )[s¹ʿd-hw ... ...] (Jamme). |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
[... ...] 1 a statue in respect of what he sought 2 from him, because Tʾlb bestowed on him 3 all the favours he sought 4 from Him and may (He) continue 5 to bestow on his servant Ṯw[.] 6 all the favours he will 7 seek [... ...] 8 [... ...] |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Roma, Museo Nazionale d’Arte Orientale “Giuseppe Tucci”, inv. 13009/16021 |
| Support type | Artefact » Base » Of statue with dedicatory inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 27.2, w. 31.9, th. 10 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Unknown |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | Unknown |
| Country | Unknown |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Ryckmans, Gonzague 1937: 262-263 | Ryckmans, Gonzague 1937. Inscriptions sud-arabes. Quatrième série. Le Muséon, 50: 239-268. |
| Ansaldi 1933: fig. 90 | Ansaldi, Cesare 1933. Il Yemen nella storia e nella leggenda. (Collezione di opere e di monografie a cura del Ministero delle colonie, 17). Rome: Sindacato italiano arti grafiche. |
| Jamme 1956 a: 34-36, pl. III/418 | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1956. Les antiquités sud-arabes du Museo Nazionale Romano. Monumenti antichi, 43: 1-120. |