UAM 507
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- By kind permission of GOAM
- By kind permission of GOAM
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Qatabanic » Marginal Qatabanic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text - fragmentary |
GENERAL NOTES
| The editor dates the text around the end of the 1st cent. BC or the beginning of the 1st cent. AD, probably just after CSAI II, 14 (50-20 BC). |
TEXT
1 [...](r) bn ʿmrtʿ bn Bʿgm qyl s²ʿbn ḏ-Ḥlzwm |
2 (s¹)qny ʾl-s¹ w-mrʾ-s¹ Bs²mm Yṯʿn bʿl Ḫrf w-N—
3 [ʿlm b]-mḥrm-s¹ Ḫrf ḥg tkrb-s¹ w-ʿt(n)y b-ywm s¹bʾ w-
4 [... ...] Ḥlzwm [... ...]mrʾ-s¹m |
5 [... ...] s²ʿbn
6 [... ...]ʾ [.]rrn w-ʾrḫ B[s²]mm w-[..]r [... ...]
7 [... ...]
8 [.]h-s¹ww w-
9 ʾb<ʿ>l byt-s¹—
10 m b-Bs²mm w-
11 Blw w-ʾlh—
12 y-s¹my w-w—
13 [... ...]
| 3 | "[...] the letter t seems to be followeed by an n. The form ʿtny can be then analysed as a T-stem from the base stem of the root ʿWN/ʿNW 'to help' with a weak letter y instead of w. [...] An alternative reading, which I find less likely, is ʿTS¹Y 'he sought to obtain' from ʿS¹Y 'to do, make, acquire'" (Prioletta 2013: 118, fn. 52). |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 [...]r, son of ʿmrtʿ, descendant of Bʿgm, qyl of the tribe Ḥlzw, 2 dedicated to his god and his Master Bs²mm Yṯʿn, Lord of Ḫrf and N 3 ʿlm, in His sanctuary Ḫrf, with respect to (what) he asked Him and sought His help for, when he undertook the expedition and 4 [... ...] Ḥlzw their lord [... ...] 5 [... ...] the tribe 6 [... ...] ... and Bs²mm intervened and [... ...] 7 [... ...] 8 his [... ...] and 9 the owners of their 10 house. By Bs²mm 11 Blw and their 12 gods and 13 [... ...] |
| Prioletta 2013: 117-119 | Prioletta, Alessia 2013. The town of Ḥalzaw (Ḥlzwm) between Qatabān, Radmān and Ḥimyar: an essay on political, religious and linguistic history. Semitica et Classica, 6: 109-130. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Aden, University Museum, UAM 507 |
| Support type | Stone inscription |
| Material | Alabaster |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Hajar Lajiya / Hajar Warrāṣ |
| Ancient site | Ḥlzwm |
| Geographical area | Markha |
| Country | Yemen |
| Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple Ḫrf of Bs²mm Yṯʾn bʿl Ḫrf w-Nʿlm |
| Link to site record |
CULTURAL NOTES
This text was written by a qyl of the tribe of ḏ-Ḥlzw. The use of this title "became generalized in the period of the kings of Sabaʾ and dhu-Raydān, to indicate the noble caste of the tribes of Yemen high plateau The fact that the tribe of Ḥalzaw in the eastern lowlands were now governed by a qayl indicates that its organization was similar to that of the frontier tribes, first and foremost the Radmān, but also the Maḍḥī" (Prioletta 2013: 119).
The god Bs²mm in the sanctuary Ḫrf is given the epithet Yṯʿn. This is also the epithet of the god ʾrnydʿ in the reliefs of the intra-muros temple in Nashshan, dating to the 8th century.Yṯʿn is also found in onomastic texts from wādī Lajiya (Prioletta 2013: 117-119).
The verb s¹bʾ (l.3) introduced a military episode probably "linked to the period of clashes between various tribes that had broken away from the Kingdom of Qatabān, as mentioned in CSAI II, 14 and MQ dhū-Nāʿim". (Prioletta 2013: 119).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Prioletta 2013: 117-119, figs 7a-7b | Prioletta, Alessia 2013. The town of Ḥalzaw (Ḥlzwm) between Qatabān, Radmān and Ḥimyar: an essay on political, religious and linguistic history. Semitica et Classica, 6: 109-130. |
| Bātāyiʿ and al-Hasni 2015: 87-88, figs 3-4 | Bāṭāyiʿ, Aḥmed and al-Hasni, Jamal Mohammed Nasser 2015. Ṯalāṯa nuqūš ǧadīda taḏkur al-ilāh al-ʾAwsānī (Blw). Pages 81-88 in Mounir Arbach and Jérémie Schiettecatte (eds). Pre-Islamic South Arabia and its Neighbours: New Developments of Research. Proceedings of the 17th Rencontres Sabéennes held in Paris, 6–8 June 2013. (BAR International Series, 2740). Oxford: Archaeopress. [British Foundation for the Study of Arabia Monographs, 16] |