Nāmī NAG 9 Ja 645; MaMB 276
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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 | ||
| Measure of letters | 5.1-3.9 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
TEXT
1 Whbʾl Y[... ... bn Y]—
2 hʿn w-Qrḍn hqny ʾ(l)—
3 [mq]h Ṯhwn bʿl ʾwm ṣlmn
4 ḏ-ḏhbn ḥmdm b-ḏt hwf—
5 y ʿbd-hw Whbʾl bn Yhʿn
6 w-Qrḍn b-kl ʾmlʾ s¹tmlʾ b-
7 ʿm-hw w-l-ḏt yzʾn ʾlmqh b—
8 ʿl ʾwm hwfyn ʿbd-hw Whbʾ—
9 l bn Yhʿn w-Qrḍn b-kl ʾmlʾ
10 yzʾn s¹tmlʾn b-ʿm-hw w-l-ḏt h—
11 wfy w-mtʿn ʾlmqh bʿl ʾwm grb
12 ʿbd-hw Whbʾl bn Yhʿn w-Qrḍ(n)
13 bn ḫwm w-ʿws¹ w-mwtt kwn b-ʾ—
14 rḍn b-ḫrf Ḥywm bn ʾbkrb bn
15 Kbr Ḫll ṯkmtn w-l-ḏt yzʾn ʾ—
16 lmqh bʿl ʾwm hwfyn grb ʿbd-h—
17 w Whbʾl bn Yhʿn w-Qrḍn bn kl b—
18 ʾs¹tm w-nkym w-nḍʿ w-s²ṣy s²nʾm w-mn—
19 gwt s¹wʾm w-l s¹ʿd-hmw ʾlmqh bʿl ʾw—
20 m ḥẓy w-rḍw mrʾ-hmw Rbs²ms¹m Nmrn m—
21 lk S¹bʾ w-ḏ-Rydn w-nʿmtm w-mngyt ṣ—
22 dqm ḏ-yhrḍyn-hmw w-l s¹ʿd-hmw ʾlm—
23 qh bʿl ʾwm ʾṯmr w-ʾfql ṣdqm ḏ-yh—
24 rḍyn-hmw bn kl ʾrḍt-hmw w-ʾs¹rr-h—
25 mw w-mfnyt-hmw b-Mryb w-Ns²qm w-Rḥ—
26 btn b-ʿṯtr w-Hbs¹ w-ʾlmqh w-b-ḏt Ḥ—
27 mym w-b-ḏt Bʿdnm w-b-s²ms¹ mlkn Tnf
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Whbʾl Y[... ... of the family] 2 Yhʿn and Qrḍn, dedicated to 3 ʾlmqh Ṯhwn, Lord of ʾwm, the statue 4 in bronze in praise because He fulfilled 5 His servant Whbʾl, of the family Yhʿn 6 and Qrḍn, in all the favours he sought 7 from Him and so that ʾlmqh, 8 Lord of ʾwm, continues to fulfill His servant Whbʾl, 9 of the family Yhʿn and Qrḍn, in all the favours 10 he will continue to seek from Him, and because 11 ʾlmqh, Lord of ʾwm, saved and protected the person of 12 His servant Whbʾl, of the family Yhʿn and Qrḍn, 13 from the epidemic sickness and the pestilence and the fatal disease that took place in the 14 land in the first year of Ḥywm, son of ʾbkrb, of the family 15 Kbr Ḫll, and so that ʾlmqh, 16 Lord of ʾwm, continues to save the person of His servant 17 Whbʾl, of the family Yhʿn and Qrḍn, from any evil 18 and mischief and the malice and the maleficence of any enemy and 19 bad luck, and may ʾlmqh, Lord of ʾwm, 20 grant them the goodwill and the satisfaction of their lord Rbs²ms¹m Nmrn, 21 king of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān, and prosperity and good luck 22 that will satisfy them, and may ʾlmqh, 23 Lord of ʾwm, grant them good crops and harvests that will 24 satisfy them in all their lands and their valleys 25 and their irrigated fields in Mryb and Ns²qm and Rḥbtn. 26 By ʿṯtr and Hbs¹ and ʾlmqh and by ḏt 27 Ḥmym and by ḏt Bʿdnm and by the solar deity of the king, Tnf. |
| 13 | mwtt: Beeston prefers the general sense of "mortal sickness", instead of Jamme's "epilepsy" based on one meaning of Ar. mūtat. |
| Jamme 1962 a: 148 | 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. |
| Beeston 1972 a: 542 | Beeston, Alfred F.L. 1972. Notes on old South Arabian lexicography VII. Le Muséon, 85: 535-544. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Artefact » Base » Of statue with dedicatory inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 155.8, w. 43.2, th. 34.7 |
| 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 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Jamme 1962 a: 147-148 | 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. |
| Nāmī 1954 (NAG): 36-40 (photo between pages 36 and 37) | Nāmī, Khalīl Y. 1954. Nuqūš ʿarabiyya ǧanūbiyya (2nd collection). Majallat kulliyat al-ʾĀdāb bi-jāmiʿt Fuʾād al-ʾawwal (Cairo university), 16: 21-43. 2024/02/19; https://search.mandumah.com/Record/169998. |
| Lundin 1969: 17-19 | Lundin (=Loundine), Avraam G. 1969. Novye južnoarabskie nadpisi muzeja v Ṣanʿa (II). Epigrafika Vostoka, 19: 14-20. |