Wellcome A 103664
Beeston 1980 b: 14, fig. 3
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Late Sabaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Relief | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Construction text - fragmentary |
GENERAL NOTES
| Beeston maintains a possibility that Wellcome A 103664 and Ist. 7608 bis are the same inscription. |
TEXT
1 [... ...]m ws²r[... ...]
2 [... ...]hmt [... ...]
3 [... ...]hm[... ...] ±
4 [... ...]n l-yqr w-(l)-s¹[... ... ]
5 [... ...]w Rḥmnn w-b[... ...]
6 [... ...] ḏn mlkn k-ʿdy ʾḫ-hm[w ... ...]
7 [... ... ](Ḥ)bs²t bn Ṣnʿw k-ḍbʾ (ḥ)[... ...]
8 [... ...]w-ʾḥzb hgr-hmw ʾks¹[mn ... ...]
9 [... ...]w-s³gd l-hmw l-ys³ḫln [... ...]
10 [... ...](h)w S²rḥm w-Lḥyʿt ḏ-Hṣbḥ[ ... ...]
11 [... ...]ʾl w-S²rḥʾl w-Nwfm w-Brlm [... ...]
12 [... ... S²]rḥbʾl bn ʾbs²mr ḏ-Rʿyn w-ʿmrm w-[... ...]
13 [... ...]ynn w-ʿmrm w-bn-hw Mrṯdʾl ḏy [... ...]
14 [... ...](m) w-Mwhbʾln ḏy-Mwḍʿ w-bnt-h[mw ... ...]
15 [... ...]dhw(([... ...]d-hw)) ʾw ynwḥn-hw ʾw yḫl[... ...]
16 [... ... S²]rḥbʾ[l] w-Mʿdkrb w-S¹myfʿ ʾlh[t ... ...]
17 [... ...]y bʿyd [... ...](y) Mlkm wḫy qy[... ...] ḥm[... ...]
| 5 | Beeston restores w-b[n-hw krs³ts³ ġlbn w-mnfs¹ qds¹]. He also would relate it to the earlier part of l.1 in Ist. 7608: ]fs¹ qds¹. |
| 6 | Beeston's integration b-ʾ]ḏn can not be maintained on the basis of the photo. |
| 11 | Brgm (Beeston). |
| 14 | h]mw Whbʾln (Beeston), but it has to be rejected on the basis of the photo. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 [... ...] 2 [... ...] 3 [... ...] 4 [... ...] 5 [... ...] Rḥmnn and his son [... ...] 6 [... ...] the king, when his brother marched [... ...] 7 [... ...] Abyssinians of Ṣanʿāʾ, when he made war [... ...] 8 [... ...] and the troops of their town Aksum [... ...] 9 [... ...] he submitted himself to be subject to [... ...] 10 [... ...] S²rḥm, Lḥyʿt, ḏ-Hṣbḥ [... ...] 11 [... ...] S²rḥʾl, Nwfm, Brlm [... ...] 12 [... ...] S²rḥbʾl, son of ʾbs²mr ḏ-Rʿyn and ʿmrm and [... ...] 13 [... ...] and ʿmrm and his son Mrṯdʾl, those of [... ...] 14 [... ...] and Mwhbʾln ḏy-Mwḍʿ and their sons [... ...] 15 [... ...] destroy and damage [... ...] 16 [... ...] S²rḥbʾl, Mʿdkrb, S¹myfʿ, those of [... ...] 17 [... ...] Mlkm [... ...] |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | London, The Wellcome Museum for the History of Medicine, A 103664 |
| Support type | Stone inscription |
| Material | Stone |
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Unknown |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | Unknown |
| Country | Unknown |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Beeston 1980 b: 11-16, fig. 3 | Beeston, Alfred F.L. 1980. The South Arabian Collection of the Wellcome Museum in London. Raydān, 3: 11-16. |
| Gajda 1997: 117-119 | Gajda, Iwona 1997. Ḥimyar gagné par le monothéisme (IVe-VIe siècle de l'ère chrétienne). Ambitions et ruine d'un royaume de l'Arabie méridionale antique. (Université d'Aix-en-Provence). |