CSAI

Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions


INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic
AlphabetAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Writing techniqueIncision
Chronology
PeriodC. Conjectural
Textual typologyConstruction text - fragmentary

TEXT


   1  Hwkb Y[..]f w-bn-hw Rṯdm w[... ... hw]—
   2  ṯrw w-hs²qrn mwrt byt-hmw [... ... b-rdʾ s²]—
   3  ym-hmw T*ʾ*lb w-s²ms-hmw w-mnḍ[ḥ-hmw ... ... w-b-rdʾ ʾmrʾ-hmw bn]—
   4  y Btʿ w-s²ʿb-hmw w-b-mqymt [... ...]

Apparatus
1The second name Y..f can be read Yhtf like in RES 4033,1 which also comes from al-Ḥuqqa (Müller).
3Thlb in the text.

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  Hwkb Y[..]f and his son Rṯdm and [... ...]
   2  laid foundations and completed the access way of their house [... ...] by the help of
   3  their Patron Tʾlb and their and their solar deity and their tutelary deity [... ...] and by the help of their lords of the clan
   4  Btʿ and their tribe and by the power of [... ...]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeStone inscription
MaterialStone
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin and provenance. Conjectural
Modern siteal-Ḥuqqa
Ancient siteDmhn
Geographical areaBanī al-Ḥārith
CountryYemen
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Müller, Walter W. 1972 b: 111-114, pl. XIV, fig. 41Müller, Walter W. 1972. Neuentdeckte Sabäische Inschriften aus al-Ḥuqqa. Neue Ephemeris für semitische Epigraphik, 1: 103-121.
Müller, Walter W. and Wissmann 1976: 123Müller, Walter W. and Wissmann, Hermann von 1976. Über die von einem Lavastrom bedrohten Tempel der Stadt Damhān, des heutigen al-Ḥuqqa, im antiken Gau Maʾḏin (Jemen). Anzeiger der phil.-hist. Klasse der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 113: 112-146.