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Lundin 1963 a: 37, fig. 1
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic
AlphabetAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Writing techniqueIncision
Chronology
PeriodC. Conjectural
Textual typologyDedicatory text - fragmentary

TEXT


   1  [... ...](ʾ)b w-ʿbdm ʿbdy [... ...]
   2  [... ...]rt hqnyy ʾlm—
   3  [qh bʿl ]ʾwm ṣlmnhn l-[w—
   4  fy bny((ʾḫy))-hmy W]hbm w-Whb[... ...]

Apparatus
1-2Jamme's integration: [ʾlr]ʾb w-ʿbdm ʿbdy [bn Mn]rt. See Jamme 1963 a: 62.
4ʾḫy: variant proposed by Jamme. See Jamme 1963 a: 62-63.

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  [... ...]ʾb and ʿbdm, the two servants [... ...]
   2  [... ...] dedicated to ʾlmqh,
   3  Lord of ʾwm, two statues for
   4  [the safety of their two sons] Whbm and Whb[... ...]

OBJECT INFORMATION

DepositṢanʿāʾ
Support typeArtefact » Base » Of statue with dedicatory inscription
MaterialStone
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Provenance. Conjectural
Modern siteMaḥram Bilqīs
Ancient siteʾwm
Geographical areaMaʾrib
CountryYemen
Archaeological contextReligious context: Temple of ʾlmqh bʿl ʾwm
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Lundin 1963 a: 36-37, fig. 1Lundin (=Loundine), Avraam G. 1963. Novye južnoarabskie nadpisi muzeja v Ṣanʿa (I). Epigrafika Vostoka, 15: 36-50.
Jamme 1963 a: 62-63Jamme, Albert W.F. 1963. The al-ʿUqlah Texts. (Documentation sud-arabe, 3). Washington: Catholic University of America Press.