| 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 - fragmentary |
| Iryānī gives a division of the text into paragraphs, without respecting the lines. |
| 1 | for the s²ms¹ of the king Tnf, see Robin 2012 a: 16. |
| English | |
1 Whbʿṯt [... ...] he sought from Him [... ...] He saved his son Rṯdṯwn from [... ...]. Might ʾlmqh continue to offer upon His servant Whbʿṯt the favours he will seek from Him. Might He grant them the goodwill of their master Ns²ʾkrb Yhnʿm, king of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān, son of Ḏmrʿly Ḏrḥ and might ʾlmqh grant them prosperity,success, good luck. By ʿṯtr, Hwbs¹, ʾlmqh, by ḏt Ḥmym, by ḏt Bʿdnm, by the solar deity of the king Tnf. |
| Deposit | Ṣanʿāʾ, Unknown (Private collection) |
| Support type | Artefact » Base » Of statue with dedicatory inscription |
| Link to object record |
| 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 |
| al-Iryānī 1973: 8-13 | al-Iryānī, Muṭahhar 1973. Fī taʾriḫ al-Yaman. Cairo. |
| al-Iryānī 1990: 47-52 | al-Iryānī, Muṭahhar 1990. Fī-taʾrīḫ al-Yaman. Nuquš musnadiya wa-taʿliqāt. Ṣanʿāʾ: Markaz al-dirāsāt wa-l-buḥūṯ al-Yamanī. |
| Robin 2012 a: 16 | Robin, Christian J. 2012. Matériaux pour une typologie des divinités arabiques et de leurs représentations.. Pages 7-118 in Isabelle Sachet (ed.). Dieux et déesses d'Arabie. Images et représentations. Actes de la table ronde tenue au Collège de France (Paris) les 1er et 2 octobre 2007. Paris: De Boccard. [en collaboration avec Christian Julien Robin] |