CSAI

Corpus of Central Middle Sabaic Inscriptions (work in progress)


Solá Solé 1964: pl. XI/2
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic
AlphabetAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Measure of letters4
Chronology
PeriodD. Conjectural
Textual typologyDedicatory text - fragmentary

TEXT


      [... ...]
   1  [... ... ]s²ʿb-hmw Ḥs²dm w-[T]ʾlb f-s²ft( )[..
   2  ... ...]lt(([... ...]gt)) nkr b-ʿly-hmw w-ṣry-hmw bn fq[r ..
   3  ....] w-ḫrf w-ḥywm ʿdy kl ʾrḍt-(h)[mw .
   4  ... ...] w-t(b)[..]n ḏt hq(ny)tn w-bn-hw w[...
   5  ... ...]fn f-mlʾ kl ʾrḍ Ḥs²dm frʿ ʾ[...
   6  ... ...]ḥrm b-s²ym-hmw Tʾlb Rymm bʿl T[rʿt ... ...]

Apparatus
2For nkr b-ʿl-hmw see CIH 81, 6.
fq[r] "poverty" is integrated by Solá Solé.
4w-tb[..]n is difficult to integrate.

TRANSLATIONS

English

      
   1  [… …] their tribe Ḥs²dm. And Tʾlb, He promised [..]
   2  [… …] He punished them, and may He gave them favourable oracular decision from (?) [..]
   3  [….] and autumn crops and fertility in all their lands [..]
   4  [… …] and […] this dedication and his son and […]
   5  [… …] and may He fill all the lands of Ḥs²dm with firstfruits […]
   6  [… …] By their Patron, Tʾlb Rymm, Lord of T[rʿt].

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeStone inscription
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin and provenance
Modern siteJabal Riyām
Ancient siteTrʿt
Geographical areaArḥab
CountryYemen
Archaeological contextReligious context: Temple of Tʾlb Rymm
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Solá Solé 1964: 38-40, pl. XI/2Solá Solé, Josep M. 1964. Inschriften aus Riyām. Sammlung Eduard Glaser. 4. (Sitzungsberichte der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 243/4). Vienna: Böhlaus.
Nebes 1995 a: 24 (16), 64 (182)Nebes, Norbert 1995. Die Konstruktionen mit /fa-/ im Altsüdarabischen. Syntaktische und epigraphische Untersuchungen. (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission, 40). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.