Raybūn-Kafas/Naʿmān 148 Rb V/91 no. 61 etc.
Frantsouzoff 2007: pl. 130a-b
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Ḥaḍramitic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 6 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
TEXT
1 (S²w)kn bn Kwf±[ʾ]l s¹qny
2 [ḏt] Ḥmym bḥt(h)±n ḏt r—
3 ḍ(w)t ʿlh-n-s¹ t(ḥ)±t-n S¹y[n]
4 ḏ-M(y)fʿn b-yd ±(ʾ)b-s¹ (K)[w]—
5 fʾl b-*ʿ*b±r ḏt tḫ±(ḏ) wr—
6 wtm bn ±mḥrm-s³ w-±bn-mw
7 (K)wfʾl ±[y](s³t)wr ḏ-y±hlk
8 ms³l-s³ w-[tḍʾ S²]±wkn b-ʾ—
9 ḏn ḏt (Ḥm)ym ±ḏt Nʿmn
10 b-s³wb-h-s¹ w-r(ʾ)±(b)-s¹ rʾb-s³
11 ḏ-ynʿm
| 5 | b-wbr instead of b-ʿbr in the text. |
| 7 | The integration [l-](s³t)wr is also possible. |
| 10 | b-s³wb-h-s¹ suggested by Multhoff (2010: 64). |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 S²wkn son of Kwfʾl dedicated to 2 ḏt Ḥmym the covering slab, by which 3 She was pleased by him, by the command of S¹yn 4 ḏ-Myfʿn, through his father Kwfʾl, 5 because he took for himself 6 a priestess from Her temple; and may 7 it be far from Kwfʾl that 8 he may do something similar to this (again); and S²wkn placed under the will 9 of ḏt Ḥmym ḏt Nʿmn, 10 by his dedication and his offering, Her reward. |
| 2 | For the translation of bḥt, see Multhoff 2010 c and Prioletta. |
| 2-3 | For the rḍw formula, see Prioletta. |
| 7 | The translation of the formulaic verb ys³twr as "to be far from" rather than "to be solved from, remitted from", as originally proposed by Frantsouzoff, was first proposed in Multhoff 2009. See also Multhoff 2010 b and c and Prioletta. |
| 7-8 | The interpretation of yhlk and ms³l as "to do" and "similar thing" follows Multhoff 2009. |
| Multhoff 2009: 295-302 | Multhoff, Anne 2009. "A parallel to the Second Commandment ..." revisited. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 39: 295-302. |
| Multhoff 2010 b: 51ff | Multhoff, Anne 2010. tfʿl/ftʿl − Die verbalen T-Stämme im Altsüdarabischen. Folia Orientalia, 47: 20-69. |
| Multhoff 2010 c: 7-40 | Multhoff, Anne 2010. Phalluskult und Bilderverbot? Beiträge zur ḥaḍramitischen Sprache und Kultur. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 160/1: 7-40. |
| Prioletta 2014 b: 102-104 | Prioletta, Alessia 2014. Towards a Ḥaḍramitic lexicon: lexical notes on terms relating to the formulary and rituals in expiatory inscriptions. Pages 101-110 in Orhan Elmaz and Janet C. E. Watson (eds). Languages of Southern Arabia. Papers from the Special Session of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held on 27 July 2013.. Supplement to the Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies. (Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies). Oxford: Archaeopress. |
| English | |
1 Shawkān, son of Kawfʾil, dedicated to 2 [Dhā]t Ḥimyam the (votive) phallus, with which she 3 was satisfied for his sake, by the authority of Sīn 4 dhū Mayfaʿān instead of his father K[aw-] 5 fiʾl, because a sacrilege had moved aside 6 from her temple. And from 7 Kawfʾil may be remitted that he shaped 8 her image. And Shawkān [plac]ed under the 9 will of Dhāt Ḥimym dhāt Naʿmān 10 by his offering (by his repenting of sin ?) and by his reconciliation the reconciliation with her 11 which may be favourable. |
| Frantsouzoff 1998 a | Frantsouzoff, Serguei A. 1998. A Parallel to the Second Commandment in the inscriptions of Raybūn. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 28: 61-67. |
| German | |
1 S²wkn bin Kwfʾl hat ḏt Ḥmym 2 die(ses) bḥt-Objekt gewidmet, (wegen) dessen 3 sie 'unter S¹yn 4 ḏ-Myfʿn' Gefallen an ihm (sc. S²wkn) fand, durch die Hand seines Vaters 5 Kwfʾl, weil der sich eine Priesterin 6 aus ihrem Tempel genommen hatte. 7 Und von Kwfʾl wird es (fürderhin) fern sein, 8 daß er etwas dieser (Sache) Vergleichbares tut. Und S²wkn hat im Ohr 9 der ḏt Ḥmym ḏt Nʿmn erbeten, 10 ihm Gunst zu gewähren und ihm ihre Hilfe, 11 welche günstig ist, zuteil werden zu lassen. |
| Multhoff 2010 b: 66 | Multhoff, Anne 2010. tfʿl/ftʿl − Die verbalen T-Stämme im Altsüdarabischen. Folia Orientalia, 47: 20-69. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Sayʾūn, Museum |
| Support type | Stone inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 95, w. 69 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Raybūn |
| Ancient site | Rybn [oasis] |
| Geographical area | Central Ḥaḍramawt |
| Country | Yemen |
| Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of ḏt Ḥmym ḏt Kfs¹/Nʿmn |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Frantsouzoff 1998 a: 61-63, figs 1a-b | Frantsouzoff, Serguei A. 1998. A Parallel to the Second Commandment in the inscriptions of Raybūn. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 28: 61-67. |
| Frantsouzoff 2007: 190-192, pl. 130a-b | Frantsouzoff, Serguei A. 2007. Raybūn. Kafas Naʿmān, temple de la déesse dhāt-Ḥimyam. Fasc. A: Les documents. Fasc. B: Les planches. Avec une contribution archéologique de Alexander V. Sedov and Jurij A. Vinogradov. Inventaire des inscriptions sudarabiques. 6. Paris: de Boccard / Rome: Herder. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres; Istituto italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente] |
| Multhoff 2010 b: 51ff | Multhoff, Anne 2010. tfʿl/ftʿl − Die verbalen T-Stämme im Altsüdarabischen. Folia Orientalia, 47: 20-69. |