Gl 1732 A 619; RES 4127
Mordtmann and Mittwoch 1932 b: pl. IV (facsimile)
- Mordtmann and Mittwoch 1932 b: pl. IV (facsimile)
- Höfner 1973: pl. XII, fig. 1
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 3.7 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text - fragmentary |
GENERAL NOTES
| The squeez of Glaser (Höfner 1973, pl. XVII, 1) is completed (at the beginning of the lines 2-4) by a fragment of another inscription which was embedded in the same wall. The letters of this second text are bigger (4.1). One can read: (t)[…] ḥ(r)t […] bʿṯt[r…] |
TEXT
1 [... ...] w-bnhw Ḏkrʾl bny Gmwln hqn—
2 [yy((hqnyw)) ʾlmqh bʿ]l Gblm kl mʿs¹ʾ w-mbn ṯ(b)—
3 [r] [... ...] b-ms¹ʾl ʾlmqh l-wfy b—
4 [... ... w]-qny-hmw b-ʿṯtr w-ʾlmqh
| 1 | According to the drawing and the restitution published by Mordtmann-Mittwoch (1932, p. 13, pl. IV, nr. 10) (=RES 4127), the name is read as Yḏkrʾl. On the base of the squeeze published in SEG VIII (pl. XVII, 1), Höfner considers the stroke of what has been read as /y/ to be a separator, so that the name is Ḏkrʾl. |
| 2 | In the RES (which follows the reading of Mordtmann-Mittwoch), the restitution proposed is: [ʾlmqh bʿl ʾw]m, but according to the photo of the squeeze, the reading Gblm is nonetheless indubitable. |
| 2-3 | At the beginning of the line 3, RES restitutes /t/ and completes the word ṭbt. Höfner proposes ṯb[r] "destroy". |
| 4 | Mordtmann and Mittwoch read [w-ʾ]qwl-hmw; Höfner: [w]-qny-hmw. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 [… …] and his son Ḏkrʾl, both of the family Gmwln, dedicated 2 to ʾlmqh, Lord of Gblm, all building and edifice damaged (?) 3 [… …] in the oracle of ʾlmqh for the safety of 4 [… …] and their goods. By ʿṯtr and ʾlmqh. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Berlin, Staatliche Museen, VA 7818 |
| Support type | Stone inscription |
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Ṣirwāḥ-Khawlān |
| Ancient site | Ṣrwḥ |
| Geographical area | Ṣirwāḥ |
| Country | Yemen |
| Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
| Notes | The provenance from Ṣirwāḥ is hypothetical, see Höfner 1976: 23. |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Mordtmann and Mittwoch 1932 b: 13, pl. IV (facsimile) | Mordtmann, Johannes H. and Mittwoch, Eugen 1932. Himjarische Inschriften in den Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin. (Mitteilungen der Vorderasiatisch-Aegyptischen Gesellschaft, 37/1). Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs. |
| Höfner 1973: 71-73, pl. XVII, 1 | Höfner, Maria 1973. Inschriften aus Ṣirwāḥ, Ḫaulān. (I Teil). Sammlung Eduard Glaser. 8. (Sitzungsberichte der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 291/1). Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. |