CIH 87 RES 2691H
Jändl 2009: 237, pl. XVIII
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Cast | ||
| Measure of letters | 1.2 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
GENERAL NOTES
| For a general hypothesis of a date for the bronze tablets from ʿAmrān, cf. Avanzini 2008 b. |
TEXT
1 Lḥyʿṯt w-bny-hw Ṯwbʾl w-ʾ—
2 ḫy-hw w-bny-hmw bnw Whrn ʾ—
3 dm bny Mrṯdm hqnyw ʾlmqh—
4 w ḏ-Hrn ḥg-n wqh-hmw b-ms¹ʾl-h—
5 w ḏn ms³ndn l-qbly ʾṣf yʿb—
6 rn frʿ l-ġlm yldn w-wqh-hm—
7 w ʾlmqhw l-hwt ms³ndn w-l
8 wzʾ ʾlmqhw s¹ʿd-hmw ʾḏkrm
9 [hn]ʾm w-l wfy grbt-hmw w-l
10 kyb-hmw bn nḍʿ w-s²ṣy s²nʾm w-
11 l-ḏt nʿmt w-tnʿmn l-bn (Whrn)
| 8 | ʾḏkrwm is the plural attested in the period B, in the period D we have ʾḏkrm. |
| 10 | kyb is a variant of gyb (CIH 86, 8-9). |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Lḥyʿṯt and his son Ṯwbʾl and his 2 brothers and their sons of the family Whrn, clients 3 of the family Mrṯdm, dedicated to ʾlmqh- 4 w ḏ-Hrn, as He bade them in His oracle, 5 this tablet as a prescription that required 6 the dedication of an offering for a child who is born, and ʾlmqhw 7 gave orders to them for that tablet; and may ʾlmqhw 8 continue to grant them healthy male children, 9 and for the well-being of their persons and for 10 their protection from harm and injury from any enemy; and 11 for what has been favourable and may be favourable to the family Whrn. |
| 5 | we have accepted the translation for ʾṣf proposed with some reservations by SD. The comparison suggested is with the Arabic waṣaf "to make a declaration, a prescription"; however, the substantive cannot be a plural, which would retain the w, but rather points to a ʾṢF root//WṢF. |
| 5-6 | Beeston 1937 a: 24 adopted the translation by C. Conti Rossini, who interpreted yʿbrn as "to be pregnant" and therefore translated: "for the women who are pregnant, in recompense for the children that they bear", |
| 6 | the imperfect form of the verb yldn does not present the value of future, but of past progresive tense. |
| Beeston 1937 a | Beeston, Alfred F.L. 1937. Sabaean inscriptions. Oxford. |
| Beeston et al. 1982 (=SD) | Beeston, Alfred F.L., al-Ghūl, Maḥmūd ʿA., Müller, Walter W. and Ryckmans, Jacques 1982. Sabaic Dictionary (English-French-Arabic). Dictionnaire Sabéen (anglais-français-arabe). Louvain-la-Neuve: Éditions Peeters / Beirut: Libraire du Liban. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | London, The British Museum, BM 48465=1862,1028.13 |
| Support type | Artefact » Plaque » With framework |
| Material | Bronze |
| Measures | h. 20, w. 12.7, th. 0.4 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | ʿAmrān |
| Ancient site | ʿmrn |
| Geographical area | ʿAmrān |
| Country | Yemen |
| Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of ʾlmqh ḏ-Hrn |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Beeston 1937 a: 23-24 | Beeston, Alfred F.L. 1937. Sabaean inscriptions. Oxford. |
| Jändl 2009: 92-93, pl. XVIII | Jändl, Barbara 2009. Altsüdarabische Inschriften auf Metall. (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 4). Tübingen: Wasmuth / Berlin: Wasmuth. |
| Avanzini 2008 b | Avanzini, Alessandra 2008. Criteri editoriali per la pubblicazione dello CSAI. Egitto e Vicino Oriente, 31: 145-157. |