RES 3902 bis N° 138 RES 3902 N° 138; Ja 114; Ghul-YU 27
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 | 1.6 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
GENERAL NOTES
| Chronologically the text could also be of period D. |
TEXT
1 ʾlwhb w-ʾḫ(y)-
2 hw w-bny-hw b—
3 (n)w Grbyn hqny—
4 w mrʾ-hmw ḏ-S¹m—
5 y bʿl-Mdrn ʾb—
6 l{m}n-ḏ-ḏhbn l-
7 ḫmr-hmw ḥyw
8 [... ...](m)w
| 3 | Lrbyn instead of Grbyn (Jaussen). |
| 4-5 | ḏ-S¹my as an abbreviated form of ḏ-S¹mwy (Sima 1999 b). |
| 5 | the engraver firstly wrote ʾblm | which then corrected as ʾblmn, without deleting the m. In fact, grammatical reasons suggest to read ʾbl{m}n |
| 8 | bʿr-h]mw (RES). |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 ʾlwhb and his brother 2 and his son, they 3 of Grbyn, dedicated 4 to their Lord ḏ-S¹mwy, 5 Master of Mdrn, the camel 6 in bronze in order for Him to 7 grant them the life 8 [... ...] |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Aden, The National Museum, NAM 2350=AM 60.758 |
| Support type | Artefact » Base » Of statue with dedicatory inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 17.5, w. 11.5, th. 7.5 |
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Unknown |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | Unknown |
| Country | Unknown |
| Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of ḏ-S¹mwy bʿl Mdrn |
| Notes | Wissmann 1964 a: 36 located the sanctuary of Mdrn in the wādī Najrān, from where the inscription may come. |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Mordtmann and Mittwoch 1932 a: 122 | Mordtmann, Johannes H. and Mittwoch, Eugen 1932. Altsüdarabische Inschriften. Orientalia, 1: 24-33. |
| Jamme 1952 b: 131 | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1952. Pièces épigraphiques sud-arabes de la collection de K. Muncherjee, I. Le Muséon, 65: 95-137. |
| Hayajneh 2002: 194-197, figs 4a-b | Hayajneh, Hani 2002. Erneute Behandlung einiger altsüdarabischen Inschriften. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 13/2: 193-222. |
| Sima 1999 b | Sima, Alexander 1999. "Another monotheistic dedication: Ja 2956" ? Anmerkungen zu den Namensformen des Gottes ḏS¹mwy und seines Tempels Yġrw. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 89: 207-224. |