CSAI

Corpus of Sabaic Inscriptions (work in progress)


INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

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

GENERAL NOTES

Inscription seen by Cruttenden in Ṣanʿāʾ, likely from the region of Ġaymān. Lines 1-9 correspond to the fragment Nāmī 75.

TEXT


      [... ...]
   1  [... ...](m)-hw ḏ[... ...ḥm]—
   2  [d]m b-ḏt hwfy-hmw b-kl ʾmlʾ [s¹]—
   3  tmlʾw b-ʿm-hw w-ḥmdm b-ḏt h[ws²]—
   4  [ʿ]-hmw b-hwfyn ʿbdy-hw ʾbkrb w-B—
   5  [... ... w]-b-ḏt s¹twfy ṣry hṣryy b-
   6  [hgrn Mr]yb w-b-ḏt s¹twfy mqḥ w-[... ...]
   7  [byt-hmw ḏ]-Ynʿm w-mknt-hw ḏ-S³l(l)[.]
   8  [... ... w]-(l)-wzʾ hws²ʿn-hmw s²ym-[hmw Ḥgr]—
   9  [m b-nʿmtm] (w)-(yfym w)-(mngt) [ṣdqm w-]
  10  rḍwn ʾlbb-hmw w-[l] s¹ʿd-hm[w bry ʾ]—
  11  ḏnm s²fqm bn dṯʾ w-ḫrf [w-l s¹]—
  12  ʿd-hmw Ḥgrm ʾṯm[r]m s²fqm [... ...]
  13  h[nʾm] bn kl ʾrḍ-hmw [w-kl ms²y]—
  14  mt-hmw w-l ḫryn Ḥ[grm ... ...]

Apparatus
Reading of ll.1-9 based on al-Ghul's photo; ll.10-14 on CIH's copy (this starts with Bron's line 5).
5-6Ḥ[grm bʿl Mr]yb (CIH).
6w-nkl[ s²ʿb-hw (CIH).
7See CIH 435/3 where Ynʿm is the name of a palace in Marib; at the end of the line ḏ-S³glt (CIH), ḏ-S³llt (Bron).
9yfym instead of wfym as a regional variant: Bron integrates: b-nʿmtm]
12[w-ʾwldm] (CIH).
14Ḥ[grm ʿbd-hw (CIH).

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  [... ...] ... in
   2  praise because He satisfied them with all the favours they
   3  sought from Him, and in praise because He
   4  granted the protection to them, i.e. to His two servants ʾbkrb and B[... ...]
   5  and because He accomplished the favourable oracular decision they both obtained in
   6  the city of Mryb, and because He accomplished the completion and [... ...]
   7  of their house ḏ-Ynʿm and its ? [... ...] ḏ-S³ll[.]
   8  [... ...] and may their Patron Ḥgrm
   9  continue to grant them prosperity, safety and good luck and
  10  the satisfaction of their hearts, and may He grant them soundness of
  11  faculties in abundance, concerning the spring and autumn crops, and may Ḥgrm grant
  12  them abundant crops and sound [... ...]
  13  from all their lands and all their
  14  fields, and may Ḥgrm save [... ...].

OBJECT INFORMATION

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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bron 1992: 61-62 (photo)Bron, François 1992. Mémorial Mahmud al-Ghul. Inscriptions sudarabiques. Paris: Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner / Sanʿāʾ: Centre français d'études yéménites.