CIAS 39.11/o 2 n° 7 Ja 2112
By kind permission of GOAM
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 2.2 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
TEXT
1 (Y)ḥ(m)[ʾl bn .](rn)tn ʾrymn ʾ—
2 dm mlkn hqny ʾlmqh bʿl-ʾw—
3 m ṣlmn ḏ-ḏhbn ḏ-s²ft ʾlmqh (k)-
4 mʿn-mw y{ʾ}tʾwln hʾ w-ʾḫ-hw Ḥywʿ—
5 ṯtr b-wfym bn ʾrḍ Ḥḍrmt b-kn s¹—
6 bʾw l-s²wʿn mrʾ-hmw S²ʿrm ʾwtr m—
7 lk S¹bʾ w-ḏ-Rydn b-kn ḍbʾ ʾrḍ Ḥ—
8 ḍrmt w-l-s¹ʿd-hmw ʾlmqh wfy gr—
9 ybt-hmw w-bʿr-hmw w-ʾṯmr w-ʾfq—
10 l ṣdqm b-ʾlmqh
| 1 | CIAS could still read on the stone Yḥmʾl; Doe and Jamme integrate [w-ʾl]rntn. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Yḥmʾl descendant of [.]rtn of the tribe Rym, vassals of 2 the king dedicated to ʾlmqh, Master of ʾwm 3 the statue in bronze that he promised to ʾlmqh, as 4 soon as he and his brother Ḥywʿ- 5 ṯtr would return in safety from the land of Ḥaḍramawt, when they 6 campaigned to follow their lord S²ʿrm ʾwtr king 7 of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān, when he waged war in the land of Ḥa- 8 ḍramawt, and may ʾlmqh grant them the safety 9 of their persons and their cattle and perfect fruit crops and 10 harvests, by ʾlmqh. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Aden, The National Museum, NAM 1619=AM 854 |
| Support type | Artefact » Base » Of statue with dedicatory inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 25.5, w. 21, th. 14.7 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Maḥram Bilqīs |
| Ancient site | ʾwm |
| Geographical area | Maʾrib |
| Country | Yemen |
| Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of ʾlmqh bʿl ʾwm |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Doe and Jamme 1968: 7, 17-18, pl. III | Doe, D. Brian and Jamme, Albert W.F. 1968. New Sabaean Inscriptions from South Arabia. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 100/1: 2-28. |
| CIAS: ii, 29-31, photo | Beeston, Alfred F.L., Pirenne, Jacqueline and Robin, Christian J. 1977-1986. Corpus des inscriptions et antiquités sud-arabes: Vol. I (1977): Tome 1. Inscriptions. Tome 2. Antiquités; Vol. II (1986): Le Musée d’Aden. Tome 1. Inscriptions. Tome 2. Antiquités. Louvain: Peeters. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres] |