CIH 46
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Southern Middle Sabaic | ||||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Construction text - fragmentary |
GENERAL NOTES
| The photo in CIH refers to Langer's copy of the last three lines, retouched by Müller, David H. |
TEXT
1 [... ...]
2 [... ...]
3 [... ... ]s²ʿbn Mhʾnfm [.]ẓhr
4 [... ...]hm(w) w-kl (n)kl-hw w-tḥ(ẓ)t-±(h)w w-m(ṣrʿy)-hw bn mwṯrm (ʿdy t)[frʿm w]-mḥfd-hmw Lgbm ṯlṯt ʾs¹qfm bn mwṯrm [ʿdy tfrʿm ... ...]m..q[.]yb
5 w-mqbr(tn) Lʾymm ʿdy mẓlfn Ḏmr±m b-rdʾ w-mqm mrʾ-h(mw) ʿ[ṯt]r-S²rqn w-ʾly-hmw ʿṯtr ḏ-Gwftm bʿl ʿlm w-Bs²r w-ʾs²ms¹-hmw w-b-rdʾ mrʾy-hmw Ys¹rm Yhnʿm w-bn-h—
6 w S²mr Yhrʿs² mlky S¹bʾ w-ḏ-Rydn w-b-r±dʾ s²ʿby-hmw Mhʾnfm w-(Ẓ)hrm w-b-wrḫn ḏ-Mhltn ḏ-b-ḫrfyn ḏ-l-ḫms¹t w-ṯmnyy w-ṯlṯ mʾtm bn ḫryf Mbḥḍ bn ʾbḥḍ
| 3 | [.]ẓhr (Minardi). |
| 4 | Minardi's reading at the beginning. |
| 5 | mẓlqn (Glaser in Hommel 1889: 660-662), Mẓlfn as a toponym (Schaffer), mẓll "baldacchino" (Minardi); Ḏmrm as a toponym (Minardi). |
| 6 | this is one of the earliest occurrences of the plural form mʾtm. According to Stein (2003 a: 108) it must be considered as an innovation which from the southern himyaritic inscriptions has spread over the whole Sabaic. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 [... ...] 2 [... ...] 3 [... ...] the tribe Mhʾnfm ... (?) 4 [... ...] and all its stone work, its lay-out and its two door leaves from foundation to top, and their field (?) Lgmm with three roofs from foundation to top [... ...] 5 [... ...] their tomb Lʾymm in the covered structure Ḏmrm, by the help and the power of their Lord ʿṯtr S²rqn and their gods ʿṯtr ḏ-Gwftm Master of ʿlm, Bs²r and their ʾs²ms¹, and by the help of their two lords Ys¹rm Yhnʿm and his son 6 S²mr Yhrʿs², the two kings of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān, and by the help of their two tribes Mhʾnfm and Ẓhrm, and in the month ḏu-Mhltn of the year three hundred eighty-five of Mbḥḍ ʾbḥḍ. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Inscription on architectural structure |
| Material | Stone |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Yakār |
| Ancient site | Ygrn |
| Geographical area | Dhamār |
| Country | Yemen |
| Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
| Notes | Nowadays the stone, in about two thirds of its original length, is reemployed upside down into the wall of the mosque at Yakār. |
| Link to site record |
CULTURAL NOTES
This inscription dates back to the co-regency between Ys¹rm Yhnʿm and his son S²mr Yhrʿs².
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Schaffer 1972: 50-53 | Schaffer, Brigitte 1972. Sabäische Inschriften aus verschiedenen Fundorten. Sammlung Eduard Glaser. 7. (Sitzungsberichte der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 282/1). Vienna: Böhlaus in Komm. |
| Minardi 1973: 283-284 | Minardi, Giovanna 1973. Note sudarabiche. Annali dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli, 33/2: 283-285. |
| Müller, Walter W. 2010: 33 | Müller, Walter W. 2010. Sabäische Inschriften nach Ären datiert. Bibliographie, Texte und Glossar. (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission, 53). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. |
| Hommel 1889 | Hommel, Fritz 1889. Ueber das Wort Wein im Südsemitischen und insbesondere über die sabaïsche Inschrift Glaser n. 12. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 43: 653-663. |
| Stein 2003 a | Stein, Peter 2003. Untersuchungen zur Phonologie und Morphologie des Sabäischen. (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 3). Rahden: Marie Leidorf GmbH / Westf.: Marie Leidorf GmbH. |