CSAI

Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions

DASI

Ir 4


INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic
AlphabetAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Writing techniqueIncision
Chronology
PeriodD
Textual typologyDedicatory text

GENERAL NOTES

Iryānī gives a division of the text into paragraphs, without respecting the lines.

TEXT


   1  ʾws¹lt Rfs²n w-Yrm ʾymn w-bny-hw Ḥywʿṯtr Yḍʿ bnw Hmdn ʾqwl s²ʿbn S¹mʿy s²lṯn ḏ-Ḥs²dm hqnyw ʾlmqh Ṯhwn bʿl ʾwm ḏn ṣlmn ḥg-n wqh-hw b-ms¹ʾl-hw l-wfy Yrm bn Hmdn w-l-s¹ʿd-hmw ʾlmqh bʿl ʾwm ḥẓy w-rḍw mrʾ-hmw Wtrm Yhʾmn mlk S¹bʾ w-ḏ-Rydn bn ʾls²rḥ Yḥḍb mlk S¹bʾ w-ḏ-Rydn w-l-s¹ʿd-hmw ʾwldm ʾḏkrwm hnʾm
   2  w-l-s¹ʿd ʾws¹lt w-bny Hmdn nʿmtm w-wfym w-ʾṯmr w-ʾfql ṣdqm ʿdy ʾrḍ-hmw w-ʾs¹rr-hmw w-l-ḏt nʿmt w-tnʿmn l-bny Hmdn w-s²ʿb-hmw Ḥs²dm w-l-ḫryn-hmw bn nḍʿ w-s²ṣy s²nʾm b-ʿṯtr w-Hbs¹ w-ʾlmqh w-b-ḏt Ḥmym w-b-ḏt Bʿdnm w-b-s²ms¹ mlkn Tnf w-b-s²ym-hmw Tʾlb Rymm w-rṯdw hqnyt-hmw ʾlmqh bʿl ʾwm

TRANSLATIONS

CSAI
English

   1  ʾws¹lt Rfs²n and Yrm ʾymn and his son Ḥywʿṯtr Yḍʿ, of the family Hmdn, ʾqwl of the tribe S¹mʿy, third-part of ḏ-Ḥs²dm, dedicated to ʾlmqh Ṯhwn, the Lord of ʾwm this statue, as He ordered in His oracle, for the safety of Yrm, of the family Hmdn; might ʾlmqh, the Lord of ʾwm, grant to them the favour and the goodwill of their master Wtrm Yhʾmn, the king of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān, son of ʾls²rḥ Yḥḍb, the king of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān; might He grant to them male and healthy children
   2  and might He grant to ʾws¹lt and to the family Hmdn prosperity and safety, good fruits and crops in their land and valleys, in what is and will be favourable for the family Hmdn and their tribe Ḥs²dm; might He deliver them from maleficence and the enemy's malefice. By ʿṯtr, Hbs¹, ʾlmqh, by ḏt Ḥmym,by ḏt Bʿdn, by the solar deity of the king Tnf, by their Patron Tʾlb Rymm. They committed their dedication to ʾlmqh, the Lord of ʾwm.

OBJECT INFORMATION

DepositṢanʿāʾ, Unknown (Private collection)
Support typeArtefact » Base » Of stela or statue
MaterialStone
Link to object record

ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin
Modern siteMaḥram Bilqīs
Ancient siteʾwm
Geographical areaMaʾrib
CountryYemen
Archaeological contextReligious context: Temple of ʾlmqh bʿl ʾwm
Link to site record

BIBLIOGRAPHY

al-Iryānī 1973: 22-25al-Iryānī, Muṭahhar 1973. Fī taʾriḫ al-Yaman. Cairo.
Ryckmans, Jacques 1974: 240Ryckmans, Jacques 1974. Himyaritica 3. Le Muséon, 87: 237-263.
al-Iryānī 1990: 57-60al-Iryānī, Muṭahhar 1990. Fī-taʾrīḫ al-Yaman. Nuquš musnadiya wa-taʿliqāt. Ṣanʿāʾ: Markaz al-dirāsāt wa-l-buḥūṯ al-Yamanī.
Robin 2012 a: 16Robin, Christian J. 2012. Matériaux pour une typologie des divinités arabiques et de leurs représentations.. Pages 7-118 in Isabelle Sachet (ed.). Dieux et déesses d'Arabie. Images et représentations. Actes de la table ronde tenue au Collège de France (Paris) les 1er et 2 octobre 2007. Paris: De Boccard. [en collaboration avec Christian Julien Robin]