Gl 1361 A 335
Solá Solé 1964: pl. XI/1
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Measure of letters | 3 | ||
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text - fragmentary (conjectural) |
TEXT
[... ...]
1 [... ...] (l)-(h)ḥḍrn Tʾlb b-S²hr[n ...
2 ...]b fqḥm w-ṯlṯ blṭm ḏ-rḍym w-l [...
3 ...]w y(ḥ)mln wrqn mfrʿn w-s¹t[...
4 ... ](b)qr-hmw b-wrḫ Ṣydm f-l yḏ[bḥn
5 ...] ʾmsḥn f-l yʾtyn l-ḥṣmn [...
6 ...]l ylfynn b-ḍrn f-l ys¹bʾ(n)n( )[...
7 ...](k)rm l-ḏ-ʾl y[.]m[... ...]
| 1 | The infinitive hḥḍrn may be introduced by l-, even if the reading is not certain. For Solá Solé l- has here an optative meaning: "er soll bringen dem Tʾlb" (1964: 37). The name S²hrn is not known. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 [… …] in order to perform a pilgrimage to Tʾlb in S²hr[n …] 2 […] half and three good blṭ-coins and […] 3 […] he will offer rich crops and […] 4 […] their cattle in the month Ṣydm, so that he can sacrifice 5 […] ʾms¹ḥn, and he could bring the tax (?) […] 6 […] so that they could make war, and they could carry out a military expedition […] 7 […] for that [… …] |
| 5 | ʾms¹ḥn may be a personal name. In CIH 290, 5 l-ḥṣmn occurs together with yʾtyn. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Stone inscription |
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Jabal Riyām |
| Ancient site | Trʿt |
| Geographical area | Arḥab |
| Country | Yemen |
| Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of Tʾlb b-S²hrn |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Solá Solé 1964: 36-38, pl. XI/1 | Solá 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: 65 (190-192) | Nebes, Norbert 1995. Die Konstruktionen mit /fa-/ im Altsüdarabischen. Syntaktische und epigraphische Untersuchungen. (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission, 40). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. |