CSAI

Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions


Bron 1992: 57-58
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic
AlphabetAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Writing techniqueIncision
Measure of letters3
Chronology
PeriodC
Textual typologyLegal text - fragmentary

GENERAL NOTES

The text has a content similar to CIH 609.

TEXT


   1  [... ...]bny ḏ-Ḥwlm w-[... ...]
   2  [... ...]r-hmw w-ʾbyt-hmw w-ʾ[... ...]
   3  [... ...]n ʾhnn-m ʿkr l-yrdn w-y[fʿ... ...]
   4  [... ... ʾlʾ]ltm w-ʾmlkm w-ʾmlktm [... ...]
   5  [... ...] kbrhn whbw w-ṣdq w-w[fy ... ...]
   6  [... ...]-hw bnw ḏ-Ḥwlm l-mrʾ-hmw [... ...]
   7  [... ... w-]ḏ-Rydn kl blṭ mlʾ w-rb[ḥ ... ...]
   8  [... ...] mlkn b-mnfq bn-hw hmṯl ḏ[... ...]
   9  [... ...] w-kl s³rḥt ḏ-kwm s¹tḥgg[t ... ...]
  10  [... ...]ʿlmn w-mnfqn w-b-kl s¹ṭrw[ ... ...]
  11  [... ... m]nfqn b-wrḫ ḏ-Hbs¹ ḏ-ḫrf Hl[kʾmr ... ...]
  12  bn Ḥḏmt |

Apparatus
4kl ʾl]ʾltn (Höfner).
6b-mrʾ-hmw (Höfner).
9Höfner: w-kl grḥt ḏkwm s¹tḥgm.
"The right reading of this line (confirmed in the photo) has been proposed by Stein 2010: 161-162" (G. Mazzini).
10bʾl instead of bkl (Höfner).
11the month name is wrongly read ḏ-Ḥḍn by Höfner.

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  [… … ] family Ḥwlm and […]
   2  their [… …] and their houses and […]
   3  […] whatever he contested […] and made kn[own …]
   4  [… to the go]ds and kings (?) and queens (?) […]
   5  […] according to the testimony they gave and established and gar[anteed …]
   6  […] the family Ḥwlm to their lords […]
   7  […] ḏu-Raydān all blṭ amount and the earnin[gs …]
   8  […] king; in reason of a binding document of which this [inscription] is the duplicate (?)
   9  […] and any regulating document would be placed under the authority of […]
  10  […] and of a debt document and in reason of everyone who wrote […]
  11  […do]cument; in the month of Hbs¹, of the year of Hl[kʾmr …]
  12  son of Ḥḏmt.

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeStone inscription
MaterialStone
Measuresh. 50.5, w. 27
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin
Modern siteShibām-Kawkabān
Ancient siteS²bm
Geographical areaal-Maḥwīt
CountryYemen
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Höfner 1981: 12-13, pl. II/1, 2Höfner, Maria 1981. Sabäische Inschriften. (Letzte Folge). Sammlung Eduard Glaser. 14. (Sitzungsberichte der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 378). Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.
Bron 1992: 57-59 (photo)Bron, François 1992. Mémorial Mahmud al-Ghul. Inscriptions sudarabiques. Paris: Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner / Sanʿāʾ: Centre français d'études yéménites.
Stein 2010: 161-162Stein, Peter 2010. Die altsüdarabischen Minuskelinschriften auf Holzstäbchen aus der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek in München. (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 5). Tübingen: Wasmuth.