Ja 420 Ry 195; RES 4724
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 | 5-5.5 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text - fragmentary (conjectural) |
TEXT
1 [... ...](d)[... ...]
2 [... ...]w w-l-ḫryn-hm[w ... ...]
3 [... ... ](T)ʾlb ḍr w-s²nʾ ʾ(d)[... ...]
4 [... ...](ʾ)ḏnm w-mqymtm w-l s¹ʿd[... ...]
5 [... ... ys]¹tmlʾnn b-ʿm-hw w-l-s¹ʿ(d)[... ...]
6 [... ...]w w-wfy byt-h(mw) [... ...]
7 [... ...] Tʾlb [... ...]
| 1 | [... ... l-s¹ʿ](d)[-hmw ... ...] (Jamme). |
| 3 | ʾ(dm)[... ...] (Jamme). |
| 4 | [... ... ʾ](ʾḏ)nm (Jamme). |
| 5 | (s¹)ʿ(d)-[hmw ... ...] (Ryckmans and Jamme). |
| 6 | [... ... wfy-h](m)w w-wfy byt-hmw [Rymn ... ...] (Jamme). The same integration at the beginning of the line by Ryckmans. |
| 7 | [... ... s²ym-h](mw Tʾlb)[ w-... ...] (Jamme). |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 [... ...] 2 [... ...] and may He preserve them [... ...] 3 [... ...] Tʾlb any foe and enemy of [... ...] 4 [... ...] faculties and material resources and may He grant [... ...] 5 [... ... the favours] they will seek from Him and may He grant [... ...] 6 [... ...] and the safety of their house [... ...] 7 [... ...] Tʾlb [... ...] |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Roma, Museo Nazionale d’Arte Orientale “Giuseppe Tucci”, inv. 13011/16023 |
| Support type | Stone inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 37, w. 39, th. 8-8.5 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Unknown |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | Unknown |
| Country | Unknown |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Ansaldi 1933: fig. 85 | 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. |
| Ryckmans, Gonzague 1937: 261 | Ryckmans, Gonzague 1937. Inscriptions sud-arabes. Quatrième série. Le Muséon, 50: 239-268. |
| Jamme 1956 a: 36-39, pl. III/420 | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1956. Les antiquités sud-arabes du Museo Nazionale Romano. Monumenti antichi, 43: 1-120. |
| Mazzini 2012: 236, cat. 51 | Mazzini, Giovanni 2012. Catalogo. Iscrizioni. Pages 232-237 in Sabina Antonini, Paola D'Amore and Michael Jung (eds). Il trono della regina di Saba. Cultura e diplomazia fra Italia e Yemen. La Collezione Sudarabica del Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale. Rome: Artemide. |