CSAI

Corpus of Northern Middle Sabaic Inscriptions (work in progress)

DASI

Haram 49 CIH 518


INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Northern Middle Sabaic
AlphabetAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Writing techniqueIncision
Chronology
PeriodB
Textual typologyConstruction text - fragmentary

TEXT


   1  [... b]n S²fyqm Tws¹ʾyn ʾmryn [h]wṯr w-bn[y ... ...]
   2  w-ẓrb w-nqb<n> Ys¹m b-qlḥ s¹yr hgrn Hrm[m ... ...]
   3  ḏ-hw b-y(d)n ḏ-qlḥn w-ḏ-mḥfdn w-ṯʿd-hw b-ḏt [... ...]
   4  ʿln w-ʾrḍ ytlwn l-mlk S¹bʾ b-fnwn Wblm b-[... ... b-ḏ-]
   5  [S¹]mwy w-ʾlh-hw Hlʾly w-b Ydʿs¹mhw <w>-Mtbn[ṭyn ... ...]—
   6  m w-ʾlʾlt ʾ[... ... w-]
   7  r(ṯ)d ʾs¹ṭr-hw w-ḥrt [... ...]

Apparatus
5-6Robin proposes to integrate: ... ... w-ʾlʾlt Hrm]m w-ʾlʾlt ʾ[mrm

TRANSLATIONS

CSAI (following Robin)
English

   1  [...] son of S²fyqm, Tws¹ʾyn, Amirite, founded and constructed [... ...]
   2  connected (?) and excavated Ys¹m with the canal of the plain of the city of Haram [... ...]
   3  which lies next (?) to the canal and the tower, and his parcel by ḏt [... ...]
   4  ... and the land that is under the rule (?) of the king of Sabaʾ, in the surroudings of Wblm [... ...]; by ḏ-
   5  S¹mwy and His god Hlʾly, by Ydʿs¹mhw, Mtbnṭyn [... ...] and the gods of Haram
   6  and the gods of the ʾmr [... ...];
   7  he committed his inscriptions and the dam [... ...]
4According to Beeston (1979 b: 96), ʾrḍ may be a broken plural (cf. Ar. ʾarāḍī) and the following verb ytlwn an imperfect feminine. Stein (2003 a: 76, fn. 245.) thinks instead that ʾrḍ is a collective noun.
Beeston 1979 bBeeston, Alfred F.L. 1979. Studies in Sabaic Lexicography I. Raydān, 2: 89-100.
Stein 2003 aStein, Peter 2003. Untersuchungen zur Phonologie und Morphologie des Sabäischen. (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 3). Rahden: Marie Leidorf GmbH / Westf.: Marie Leidorf GmbH.

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeStone inscription
MaterialStone
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin
Modern siteKharibat Hamdān
Ancient siteHrm
Geographical areaJawf - Wādī Madhab
CountryYemen
Archaeological contextAgricultural irrigation context: Dam or retaining structure
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Robin 1992 a: 118-119Robin, 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]