DhM 229
By kind permission of GOAM
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Southern Middle Sabaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 2 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
TEXT
1 Bs²mt mʾdbt
2 bny Qdrn hqnyt |
3 ʾṯrtn ḏ{ḥ}t Ḥrrt—
4 ←n b-ḏ tʾmn(n)-
5 hw ḏ-tnḍʿt-
6 hw |
| 4 | Letter b written without the horizontal bar. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Bs²mt servant of 2 the family Qdrn made a dedication 3 to ʾṯrtn ḏt Ḥrrtn, 4 so that (lit.: because) she may entrust 5 to Her what she implored 6 Her. |
| The phrase may be also translated: "so that She may protect her in what she implored Her", with the goddess as subject. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Dhamār, Regional Museum, DhM 229 |
| Support type | Artefact » Incense burner |
| Shape | With truncated pyramidal base |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 16, w. 15.5, th. 9.3 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Unknown |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | Unknown |
| Country | Unknown |
| Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of ʾṯrtn ḏt Ḥrrtn |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Avanzini 2013: 32-34, fig. 2 | Avanzini, Alessandra 2013. Inscriptions from museums in the region of Dhamār: Qatabanians in Baynūn and the goddess Athirat (ʾṯrtn). Pages 27-36 in Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet, Catherine Fauveaud and Iwona Gajda (eds). Entre Carthage et l’Arabie heureuse. Mélanges offerts à François Bron. (Orient & Méditerranée, 12). Paris: de Boccard. |