CSAI

Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions

DASI

RES 3512B Ry 4


INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Ḥaḍramitic
AlphabetAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Writing techniqueIncision
Measure of letters4
Chronology
PeriodB2
Textual typologyDedicatory text

TEXT


   1  (H)wfʿs³t bn S³mrm s¹qny S¹yn ḏ-ʾlm nf←s¹-s¹ w-ʾḏn-s¹ w-←wld-s¹ w-qn(y)-(s¹) w-ms¹lmhn ḏ-l-s¹m y(w)[m ...←...] ḏ-q—
   2  ←(n)y w-bʿl [...] (bnhy) (ʾʿrs³) [...]ly ḏ-(ʾ)←mʿdm b-mw(t)←r ḏ-Tḥrbhn b-(Ṯl)m ywm (ṣr)[y] S¹yn ḏ-[ʾlm ←...]n mwqrthn |

Apparatus
1At the end of the line: ]y-s¹ ḏ-q (RES); yw[m s²ʾm w-qny w-bʿl w-ẓ]rb (Rhodokanakis); [... ...]r[ w-s¹]krb ḏ-q (Jamme). In fact, although not sure, rb could be a possible reading before ḏ-q.
2At the beginning of the line: w-bʿl [.....](bnh) (RES); w-bʿl [b-ʿm] (bnhy) (Rhodokanakis and Jamme).
Further on: ʾʿrs³ Hl[.]ly (RES); ʾʿrs³ [...] (Rhodokanakis); ʾʿrs³ Hm[ʿ]ly (Jamme); Tḥrbḥn (Rhodokanakis); ḏt-Ḥrbhn (Jamme).
At the end: ṣr[.] s¹ṯn ḏ- (RES); ṣw[b] S¹yn ḏ- (Rhodokanakis); ṣr S¹yn ḏ-ʾl[m b]n (Jamme). Jamme assumes there are only two letters missing, but the length of the lacuna at this point, either on l. 2 or on l. 1, cannot be surely ascertained.

TRANSLATIONS

CSAI
English

   1  Hwfʿs³t son of S³mrm dedicated to S¹yn ḏ-ʾlm his life, his faculties, his children, his possessions and the altar that belongs to them, when [... ...] what he acquired
   2  and possessed [...] the sons of ʾʿrs³ [...]ly of ʾmʿdm, in the cultivated land of ḏ-Tḥrbhn at Ṯlm, when S¹yn ḏ-ʾlm gave His oracular decision [... ...] the (?).
2"am Tag da er ausg[oß] dem S¹yn von [ʾlm] {eine Libation} [au]s dieser Ausgußöffnung (Rhodokanakis); "dans la région très herbue de Ḥarabhân, à Ṯâlim, au jour où il façonna [ceci] pour Sîn, Celui de ʾIlum, [c]e cette pierre taillée (Jamme).

OBJECT INFORMATION

DepositLondon, The British Museum, BM 117929=1926,0405.1
Support typeArtefact » Offering table » With bull head as gutter (ms¹lm)
Measuresh. 9.4, w. 61, th. 30
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin
Modern siteʿUqrān
Ancient siteʿqrn
Geographical areaCentral Ḥaḍramawt
CountryYemen
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Ryckmans, Gonzague 1927: 169-172Ryckmans, Gonzague 1927. Inscriptions sud-arabes. Première série. Le Muséon, 40: 161-200.
Rhodokanakis 1936: 54-56Rhodokanakis, Nikolaus 1936. Zur Interpretation Altsüdarabischer Inschriften I. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 43: 21-76.
Wissmann 1968: 46, pl. III/2Wissmann, Hermann von 1968. Zur Archäologie und antiken Geographie von Südarabien. Ḥaḍramaut, Qatabān und das ʿAden-Gebiet in der Antike. (Uitgaven van het, Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Instituut te İstanbul, 24). Istanbul: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten.
Jamme 1971 b: 63-64Jamme, Albert W.F. 1971. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe II. Washington. 2019/07/23; https://cuislandora.wrlc.org/islandora/object/cuislandora%3A206497#page/1/mode/1up. [Privately printed]