Y.05.B.B.13
Agostini 2021 a: 154, fig. 2
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- Agostini 2021 a: 154, fig. 2
By kind permission of Missione Archeologica Italiana nella Repubblica dello Yemen (©MAIRY) - Agostini 2011: 49, fig. 1
By kind permission of Missione Archeologica Italiana nella Repubblica dello Yemen (©MAIRY)
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | h. 6.5 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
GENERAL NOTES
| The collation of Y.05.B.B.13 and Y.05.B.B.12 is suggested by Multhoff 2019: 8 on the basis of textual elements (above all, the same dedicant). However, Agostini 2021: 157 remarks that the collation - though possible - is not certain, mainly based on the archaeological context of the two objects: their position suggests to exclude that Y.05.B.B.13 was originally placed above Y.05.B.B.12. |
TEXT
1 [Yʾ]↯(ws¹)ʾl bn Ys¹mʿʾl ḏ-Ġzr S¹ḥ(fn)( ʿ)↯bd Wqhʾl Rym|
2 [ml]k Mʿ↯n kbr ↯grbn w-nqln s³l↯ʾ w-s¹qn↯y ʿṯtr ḏ-Qbḍm
3 kl mṣr↯bt qrqr bytn Q↯bḍm w-mqldn yw↯m qtdm Yʾws¹—
4 ʾl k-mr↯ʾh-s¹ Wqhʾl Rym mlk Mʿn↯m kl mnq↯l w-mbny↯ bytn
5 Qbḍm b↯n ʾs²rs¹m ʿd s²qrn w-ywm bny b-↯gnʾ↯ (h)grn Yṯl mḥ—
6 fdn Ṣ↯dqn ḏ-s³n S²bm b-ṭbnh ʾḫ-s¹ ↯Rṯdʾl ḏ-Ġzr S¹—
7 ḥfn y↯wm s¹ṯb k-s¹ mrʾ-s¹ mlk Mʿn↯ w-ms³d Mʿn tʾmnm
| Agostini 2021 does not exclude the possibility that the text continued on further lines (see also the General notes). |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Yʾws¹ʾl son of Ys¹mʿʾl ḏ-Ġzr S¹ḥfn, servant of Wqhʾl Rym 2 king of Maʿīn, kbr of the masonry and of the quarry, dedicated and offered to ʿṯtr ḏ-Qbḍm 3 all the offering tables of the hall of the temple Qbḍm and the basin, when Yʾws¹ʾl directed 4 for his lord Wqhʾl Rym king of Maʿīn all the excavation (or: transport) and the construction of the temple 5 Qbḍm from foundations to the top, and when he built on the walls of the town of Yṯl the 6 tower Ṣdqn, that near S²bm, in the property of his brother Rṯdʾl ḏ-Ġzr 7 S¹ḥfn, when his lord the king of Maʿīn and the assembly of Maʿīn expressed gratitude to him. |
| 2, 4 | Agostini 2011 translated the words from the root NQL as "transport". CSAI proposed the alternative interpretation of "quarry, excavation". Agostini 2021 translated "cava, scavo". On the root NQL, see Rossi 2022: 128. |
| 3 | For the meaning of mṣrb, qrqr and mqld and the correspondent structures in the temple Qbḍm, see Agostini 2011: 51. |
| Agostini 2011: 49 | Agostini, Alessio 2011. Two new inscriptions from the recently excavated temple of ʿAthtar dhū-Qabḍ in Barāqish (Ancient Minaean Yathill). In memoriam Alessandro de Maigret. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 22/1: 48-58. |
| Agostini 2021 a: 155 | Agostini, Alessio 2021. Il tempio di ʿAthtar dhu-Qabḍ. Le iscrizioni. Pages 151-171 in Sabina Antonini and Francesco G. Fedele (eds). Barāqish/Yathill (Yemen) 1986-2007. Volume 1: Excavations of Temple B and related research and restoration / Scavi del Tempio B e ricerche e restauri connessi. Oxford: Archaeopress. |
| Rossi 2022 | Rossi, Irene 2022. The city-states of the Jawf at the dawn of Ancient South Arabian history (8th-6th centuries BCE). II. Corpus of the inscriptions. (Arabia Antica, 17/2). Roma: «L'Erma» di Bretschneider. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Barāqish, Museum |
| Support type | Artefact » Architectural element » Panel |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | w. 160 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Barāqish |
| Ancient site | Yṯl |
| Geographical area | Southern Jawf |
| Country | Yemen |
| Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple Qbḍm of ʿṯtr ḏ-Qbḍ |
| Notes | The panel was found during the excavation of the temple, fallen and broken into pieces. It originally stood dividing the transept with the cellae from the hall of the temple. |
| Link to site record |
CULTURAL NOTES
The author of the inscription was charged by the king of Maʿīn Wqhʾl Rym with the construction works in the temple of ʿṯtr ḏ-Qbḍm, "bytn Qbḍm". In this inscription he dedicated some votive objects, namely the offering tables of the temple, that were found in situ during the excavations (see Y.04.B.B.11, Y.05.B.B.1, Y.05.B.B.9, Y.05.B.B.10; three of them are engraved with the monogram of the dedicant's family Ġzr). He also recorded the building of the tower Ṣdqn on the city walls.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Agostini 2011: 49-51, fig. 1 | Agostini, Alessio 2011. Two new inscriptions from the recently excavated temple of ʿAthtar dhū-Qabḍ in Barāqish (Ancient Minaean Yathill). In memoriam Alessandro de Maigret. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 22/1: 48-58. |
| Multhoff 2019: 8, fn. 57 | Multhoff, Anne 2019. Merchant and marauder—The adventures of a Sabaean clansman. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy: 1-24. 2019/11/18; https://doi.org/10.1111/aae.12127. |
| Agostini 2021 a: 154-155, fig. 2 | Agostini, Alessio 2021. Il tempio di ʿAthtar dhu-Qabḍ. Le iscrizioni. Pages 151-171 in Sabina Antonini and Francesco G. Fedele (eds). Barāqish/Yathill (Yemen) 1986-2007. Volume 1: Excavations of Temple B and related research and restoration / Scavi del Tempio B e ricerche e restauri connessi. Oxford: Archaeopress. |