Hamilton 9
Pirenne 1990: pl. LXII/a
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
TEXT
1 S¹ʿdk[rb w-ʾṯt-hw]
2 Yfnt ʾ(ʾ)ḏ(n)[n hqn]—
3 yw-ʾlmqh-Ṯhwn-bʿl-ʾ—
4 wm ṣlmn ḏ-ḏhbn ḥm—
5 dm k-yḫmrn-hmw rʾy l-
6 hmw ṣdqn bn ftḥ k—
7 wn byn-hw w-byn-ʾmrʾ-
8 hw w-l-ḏt s²ftt ʾṯtn
9 Yfnt l-ḫtmrn-hw wldm
10 [ḥ]g k-rtʿ-hw b-[m]s¹ʾl-hw
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 S¹ʿdkrb [and his wife] 2 Yfnt, those of ʾḏn, dedicated 3 to ʾlmqh Ṯhwn, Lord of 4 ʾwm, the statue in bronze in praise 5 because might He grant them an oracular vision 6 (which was) propitious (saving him) from the lawsuit which 7 occurred between him and his lords. 8 And also because the wife 9 Yfnt was promised that a child is granted her, 10 as He protected him (or, her) in His oracle. |
| 8-9 | The translation follows Nebes 1987: 90. |
| Nebes 1987: 90 | Nebes, Norbert 1987. Zur Konstruktion von Subjekt und Objekt abhängiger Infinitive in Sabäischen. Pages 75-98 in Christian J. Robin and Muḥammad ʿA. Bāfaqīh (eds). Ṣayhadica. Recherches sur les inscriptions de l'Arabie préislamique offertes par ses collègues au professeur A.F. L. Beeston. (Arabie préislamique, 1). Paris: Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Oxford, The Ashmolean Museum, 1952-525 |
| Support type | Artefact » Base » Of statue with dedicatory inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 18, w. 13 |
| 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 Ṯhwn bʿl ʾwm |
| Link to site record |
| Modern site | Shabwa |
| Ancient site | S²bwt |
| Geographical area | Shabwa |
| Country | Yemen |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Brown and Beeston 1954: 56-60, pl. XXI, fig. 2 | Brown, W.L. and Beeston, Alfred F.L. 1954. Sculptures and Inscriptions from Shabwa. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society: 43-62. |
| Jamme 1956 b: 151-152 | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1956. Remarks on the South-Arabian Inscriptions Hamilton 3-13. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1956: 146-156. |
| Müller, Walter W. and Wissmann 1976: 130 | Müller, Walter W. and Wissmann, Hermann von 1976. Über die von einem Lavastrom bedrohten Tempel der Stadt Damhān, des heutigen al-Ḥuqqa, im antiken Gau Maʾḏin (Jemen). Anzeiger der phil.-hist. Klasse der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 113: 112-146. |
| Nebes 1987: 90 | Nebes, Norbert 1987. Zur Konstruktion von Subjekt und Objekt abhängiger Infinitive in Sabäischen. Pages 75-98 in Christian J. Robin and Muḥammad ʿA. Bāfaqīh (eds). Ṣayhadica. Recherches sur les inscriptions de l'Arabie préislamique offertes par ses collègues au professeur A.F. L. Beeston. (Arabie préislamique, 1). Paris: Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner. |
| Pirenne 1990: 80, pl. LXII/a | Pirenne, Jacqueline 1990. Les témoins écrit de la région de Shabwa et l'histoire. Jean-François Breton (ed.), Fouilles de Shabwa. 1. (Bibliothèque archéologique et historique, 134). Paris: Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner. [Institut français d'Archéologie du Proche-Orient] |
| Bron 1991 a: 462 | Bron, François 1991. Notes sur les inscriptions de Shabwa. Syria, 68: 459-462. |
| Robin 1992 b: 211 | Robin, Christian J. 1992. Review of Pirenne, Jacqueline 1990. Les témoins écrit de la région de Shabwa et l'histoire. Jean-François Breton (ed.), Fouilles de Shabwa. 1. (Bibliothèque archéologique et historique, 134). Paris: Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner. [Institut français d'Archéologie du Proche-Orient]. Bulletin critique des Annales Islamologiques, 9: 205-213. |