CIAS 39.11/o 3 n° 10 Ja 731
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 | 2.5 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
TEXT
1 Nʿmt ḏt Ddḥ(m)—
2 d ʾmh bn Ḫḏw(t)
3 hqnyt ʾlmqh bʿl[ ʾ]—
4 wm ṣlmtn ḥmdm b-[ḏ]—
5 [t] mtʿ w-hʿnn bnt-hw
6 [R](b)btgwbn bn kl (ʾ)—
7 (m)rḍ mrḍt b-ʾlm(q)[h]
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Nʿmt she of Ddḥmd 2 (from the ?) handmaids of the clan Ḫḏwt, 3 dedicated to ʾlmqh, Lord of 4 ʾwm, the female statue, in praise because 5 He saved and helped her daughter 6 Rbbtgwbn against all 7 the sicknesses she suffered from, by ʾlmqh. |
| 2 | It is not clear whether the plural noun "handmaids" (ʾmh) refers to both the preceeding nouns, as Jamme assumes. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Aden, The National Museum, NAM 2375A=AM 853 |
| Support type | Artefact » Base » Of statue with dedicatory inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 22, w. 16, th. 14 |
| 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
| Jamme 1962 a: 209-210, pl. 35 | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1962. Sabaean Inscriptions from Maḥram Bilqîs (Mârib). (Publications of the American Foundation for the Study of Man, 3). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press. |
| Doe and Jamme 1968: 7, 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, 59-60, 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] |