| 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 gives a division of the text into paragraphs, without respecting the lines. |
| Text disposed in 4 lines according to Sharaf ad-Dīn. | |
| 1 | Ys²ʿr, wqh-hmw (Inan). |
| 2 | w-l s¹ʿd-hmw (Iryānī), l-ḫryn-hmw (Sharaf ad-Dīn), nkytm (Sharaf ad-Dīn and Inan). |
| English | |
1 Hwtrʿṯt Ys²kr of the family Kbs¹ym, ʾqwl of the tribe Tnʿmm and Tnʿmt, dedicated to ʾlmqh Ṯhwn, the Lord of ʾwm, the statue as He ordered him in His oracle and in praise because He has bestowed upon him all the favours he sought from Him and might ʾlmqh continue to bestow and offer upon His servant Hwtrʿṯt all the favours he will seek from Him. 2 Might He grant him the goodwill of his master Ḏmrʿly Wtr Yhnʿm, king of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān,son of S¹mhʿly Ḏrḥ and might ʾlmqh grant him prosperity and good luck and might He deliver him from misfortune, mischief, maleficence, malice of enemy; by ʾlmqh. |
| Deposit | Ṣanʿāʾ, Unknown (Private collection) |
| Support type | Artefact » Base » Of statue with dedicatory inscription |
| Link to object record |
| Modern site | Maḥram Bilqīs |
| Ancient site | ʾwm |
| Geographical area | Maʾrib |
| Country | Yemen |
| Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of ʾlmqh bʿl ʾwm |
| Link to site record |
| Sharafaddīn 1967: 59-60 | Sharafaddīn, Aḥmad H. 1967. Taʾrīḫ al-Yaman al-ṯaqāfī. Cairo. |
| al-Iryānī 1973: 2-4 | al-Iryānī, Muṭahhar 1973. Fī taʾriḫ al-Yaman. Cairo. |
| Ryckmans, Jacques 1974: 239-240 | Ryckmans, Jacques 1974. Himyaritica 3. Le Muséon, 87: 237-263. |
| ʿInān 1976: 394 | ʿInān, Zaid b. ʿA 1976. Taʾriḫ ḥaḍāra al-Yaman al-qadīm. Cairo. |
| al-Iryānī 1990: 41-46 | al-Iryānī, Muṭahhar 1990. Fī-taʾrīḫ al-Yaman. Nuquš musnadiya wa-taʿliqāt. Ṣanʿāʾ: Markaz al-dirāsāt wa-l-buḥūṯ al-Yamanī. |