| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
| Iryānī transcribed the text in a paragraph arrangement that did not respect the original disposition of the lines. |
| English | |
1 Lfʿṯt Ys²ʿ, of the family Mrḥbm, wzʿ of the tribe of Sabaʾ, dedicated to their Lord ʾlmqh Ṯhwn, Lord of ʾwm, four statues in bronze because He granted to His servant Lfʿṯt Ys²ʿ to return with casualties and prisoners and booty, when he carried out an expedition with the tribe of Sabaʾ to the land of the Ḥaḍramawt; when their lord Ḏmrʿly Yhbr, king of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān and the Ḥaḍramawt and Ymnt, ordered him to carry out an expedition to Ṣwʾrn, ʿqrn, S²bwt, Rṭġtm, Mrymtm and Trm and all the towns and the valley of Ḥaḍramawt, and ʾlmqh granted them to return in safety and glory and with casualties and booty and as he had sought from ʾlmqh; may He grant them prosperity and safety and the goodwill and the satisfaction of their lord Ḏmrʿly Yhbr, king of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān and the Ḥaḍramawt and Ymnt, and may He grant them good crops and harvests and may He deliver them and save them from any evil and mischief and anything against which divine protection is invoked and the malice of any enemy. By ʾlmqh Ṯhwn, Lord of ʾwm. |
| 1 | ʿdqm: ʿdq in the Sabaic Dictionary is translated as "s.t. against which divine protection is invoked" (Beeston et al. 1982: 12). ʿAṭbūš 2021 a compares ʿdq with Soqotri ʿédaq "to allow", esp. in the phrase ʿātaʿdaq ʾallāh diyʿā "god forbid evil". |
| Beeston et al. 1982 (=SD): 12 | 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. |
| ʿAṭbūš 2021 a | ʿAṭbūsh, Mohammed A. 2021. Mulāḥaḍāt ḥawl mufradat ʿDQ. Majallat Adāb al-Ḥudayda, 8: 103 – 110. |
| Deposit | Ṣanʿāʾ, al-Kuhālī collection |
| Support type | Artefact » Base » Of statue with dedicatory inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Link to object record |
| Modern site | Maḥram Bilqīs |
| Ancient site | ʾwm |
| Geographical area | Maʾrib |
| Country | Yemen |
| Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of ʾlmqh Ṯhwn bʿl ʾwm |
| Link to site record |
| al-Iryānī 1973: 161-163 | al-Iryānī, Muṭahhar 1973. Fī taʾriḫ al-Yaman. Cairo. |
| Ryckmans, Jacques 1975 a: 209 | Ryckmans, Jacques 1975. Ḥimyaritica 5. Le Muséon, 88: 199-219. |
| Beeston 1976 b: 53 | Beeston, Alfred F.L. 1976. Warfare in ancient South Arabian (2nd.-3rd. centuries A.D.). Qahtan. Studies in Old Arabian Epigraphy. 3. London: Luzac and Co. |
| al-Iryānī 1990: 192-195 | al-Iryānī, Muṭahhar 1990. Fī-taʾrīḫ al-Yaman. Nuquš musnadiya wa-taʿliqāt. Ṣanʿāʾ: Markaz al-dirāsāt wa-l-buḥūṯ al-Yamanī. |