CSAI

Corpus of Northern Middle Sabaic Inscriptions (work in progress)

DASI

Haram 34 Gl 1054; CIH 533


By kind permission of Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Northern Middle Sabaic
AlphabetAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Writing techniqueCast
Chronology
PeriodC
Textual typologyDedicatory text

TEXT


   1  ʾmt{|}ʾbh tnḫyt w-tnḏ—
   2  rn l-ḏ-S¹mwy bʿl Byn b-h—
   3  n qrb-h mrʾ<m> ywm ṯlṯ |
   4  ḥgtn w-hʾ ḥyḍ<m> w-ms²y w-l—
   5  m yġts¹l w-ʿwdt mrʾ<m> w-h—
   6  [... ...]

Apparatus
3-5Additions following Stein 2007, 39.

TRANSLATIONS

CSAI
English

   1  ʾmt ʾbh confessed and did penance
   2  to ḏ-S¹mwy, Master of Byn, because
   3  a man approached her sexually in the third day of the
   4  pilgrimage, when she was having her period, and then he went away and
   5  he did not wash himself; and (because) she (?) a man and
   6  [... ...]
5Both Robin and Stein do not translate ʿwdt. The verb, which in Beeston et al. 1982 is given the meaning of "return", could be a 02 stem; Mascitelli suggests "e lei ha continuato (?)". The following object, mrʾ, does not have the -n ending, and so it cannot refer to the same man mentioned above.
Robin 1992 aRobin, Christian J. 1992. Inabbaʾ, Haram, al-Kāfir, Kamna et al-Ḥarāshif. Fasc. A: Les documents. Fasc. B: Les planches. Inventaire des inscriptions sudarabiques. 1. Paris: de Boccard / Rome: Herder. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres; Istituto italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente]
Stein 2007Stein, Peter 2007. Materialien zur sabäischen Dialektologie: Das Problem des amiritischen ("haramischen") Dialektes. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 157: 13-47.
Beeston et al. 1982 (=SD)Beeston, Alfred F.L., al-Ghūl, Maḥmūd ʿA., Müller, Walter W. and Ryckmans, Jacques 1982. Sabaic Dictionary (English-French-Arabic). Dictionnaire Sabéen (anglais-français-arabe). Louvain-la-Neuve: Éditions Peeters / Beirut: Libraire du Liban.
Mascitelli 2006Mascitelli, Daniele 2006. L'arabo in epoca preislamica. Formazione di una lingua. (Arabia Antica, 4). Rome: «L'Erma» di Bretschneider.

OBJECT INFORMATION

DepositWien, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Sem 7
Support typeArtefact » Plaque » With framework
MaterialBronze
Measuresh. 15, w. 15
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin
Modern siteKharibat Hamdān
Ancient siteHrm
Geographical areaJawf - Wādī Madhab
CountryYemen
Archaeological contextReligious context: Temple of ḏ-S¹mwy bʿl Byn
NotesAccording to the CIH, the provenance is Haram, as also suggested by the mention of the temple of ḏ-S¹mwy bʿl Byn. Ryckmans 1945, instead, cites a private communication by A. Grohmann attesting Kamna as the place of provenance on the basis of Glaser's notes.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

CIH: II/3, 250-251, pl. 221889-1930. Inscriptiones Himyariticas et Sabaeas Continens. CIS, Corpus inscriptionum semiticarum ab Academia Inscriptionum et Litterarum Humaniorum conditum atque digestum. (3 vols), Paris: Imprimerie nationale. [Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres.]
Robin 1992 a: 102-103, 11/bRobin, Christian J. 1992. Inabbaʾ, Haram, al-Kāfir, Kamna et al-Ḥarāshif. Fasc. A: Les documents. Fasc. B: Les planches. Inventaire des inscriptions sudarabiques. 1. Paris: de Boccard / Rome: Herder. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres; Istituto italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente]
Mascitelli 2006: 96-98, fig. 1Mascitelli, Daniele 2006. L'arabo in epoca preislamica. Formazione di una lingua. (Arabia Antica, 4). Rome: «L'Erma» di Bretschneider.
Stein 2007: 39-40Stein, Peter 2007. Materialien zur sabäischen Dialektologie: Das Problem des amiritischen ("haramischen") Dialektes. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 157: 13-47.
Jändl 2009: 131-132Jändl, Barbara 2009. Altsüdarabische Inschriften auf Metall. (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 4). Tübingen: Wasmuth / Berlin: Wasmuth.