CSAI

Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions


Beeston 1980 b: 14, fig. 3
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Late Sabaic
AlphabetAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Writing techniqueRelief
Chronology
PeriodE
Textual typologyConstruction text - fragmentary

GENERAL NOTES

Beeston maintains a possibility that Wellcome A 103664 and Ist. 7608 bis are the same inscription.

TEXT


   1  [... ...]m ws²r[... ...]
   2  [... ...]hmt [... ...]
   3  [... ...]hm[... ...] ±
   4  [... ...]n l-yqr w-(l)-s¹[... ... ]
   5  [... ...]w Rḥmnn w-b[... ...]
   6  [... ...] ḏn mlkn k-ʿdy ʾḫ-hm[w ... ...]
   7  [... ... ](Ḥ)bs²t bn Ṣnʿw k-ḍbʾ (ḥ)[... ...]
   8  [... ...]w-ʾḥzb hgr-hmw ʾks¹[mn ... ...]
   9  [... ...]w-s³gd l-hmw l-ys³ḫln [... ...]
  10  [... ...](h)w S²rḥm w-Lḥyʿt ḏ-Hṣbḥ[ ... ...]
  11  [... ...]ʾl w-S²rḥʾl w-Nwfm w-Brlm [... ...]
  12  [... ... S²]rḥbʾl bn ʾbs²mr ḏ-Rʿyn w-ʿmrm w-[... ...]
  13  [... ...]ynn w-ʿmrm w-bn-hw Mrṯdʾl ḏy [... ...]
  14  [... ...](m) w-Mwhbʾln ḏy-Mwḍʿ w-bnt-h[mw ... ...]
  15  [... ...]dhw(([... ...]d-hw)) ʾw ynwḥn-hw ʾw yḫl[... ...]
  16  [... ... S²]rḥbʾ[l] w-Mʿdkrb w-S¹myfʿ ʾlh[t ... ...]
  17  [... ...]y bʿyd [... ...](y) Mlkm wḫy qy[... ...] ḥm[... ...]

Apparatus
5Beeston restores w-b[n-hw krs³ts³ ġlbn w-mnfs¹ qds¹]. He also would relate it to the earlier part of l.1 in Ist. 7608: ]fs¹ qds¹.
6Beeston's integration b-ʾ]ḏn can not be maintained on the basis of the photo.
11Brgm (Beeston).
14h]mw Whbʾln (Beeston), but it has to be rejected on the basis of the photo.

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  [... ...]
   2  [... ...]
   3  [... ...]
   4  [... ...]
   5  [... ...] Rḥmnn and his son [... ...]
   6  [... ...] the king, when his brother marched [... ...]
   7  [... ...] Abyssinians of Ṣanʿāʾ, when he made war [... ...]
   8  [... ...] and the troops of their town Aksum [... ...]
   9  [... ...] he submitted himself to be subject to [... ...]
  10  [... ...] S²rḥm, Lḥyʿt, ḏ-Hṣbḥ [... ...]
  11  [... ...] S²rḥʾl, Nwfm, Brlm [... ...]
  12  [... ...] S²rḥbʾl, son of ʾbs²mr ḏ-Rʿyn and ʿmrm and [... ...]
  13  [... ...] and ʿmrm and his son Mrṯdʾl, those of [... ...]
  14  [... ...] and Mwhbʾln ḏy-Mwḍʿ and their sons [... ...]
  15  [... ...] destroy and damage [... ...]
  16  [... ...] S²rḥbʾl, Mʿdkrb, S¹myfʿ, those of [... ...]
  17  [... ...] Mlkm [... ...]

OBJECT INFORMATION

DepositLondon, The Wellcome Museum for the History of Medicine, A 103664
Support typeStone inscription
MaterialStone
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin
Modern siteUnknown
Ancient siteUnknown
Geographical areaUnknown
CountryUnknown
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Beeston 1980 b: 11-16, fig. 3Beeston, Alfred F.L. 1980. The South Arabian Collection of the Wellcome Museum in London. Raydān, 3: 11-16.
Gajda 1997: 117-119Gajda, Iwona 1997. Ḥimyar gagné par le monothéisme (IVe-VIe siècle de l'ère chrétienne). Ambitions et ruine d'un royaume de l'Arabie méridionale antique. (Université d'Aix-en-Provence).