CSAI

Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions


Garbini 1972: pl. II/1
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

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

TEXT


   1  [R]bs²ms¹m [... ...ʿ]—
   2  ṯt w-ʾkl(m) bny [Qb]—
   3  ʿṯm hqny(w) (s²y)m-h[m]—
   4  (w) Wdm ḏ-Yfʿ(n) ʾ[ʿm]—
   5  [d](n) ḏ-Hwrn w-(qb)l[.]
   6  [..]ṣb w-tḏhb ḏ(ʿ)[..]
   7  [ʾ]ʿmdn w-ʾrb(ʿt)[ ʾ]—
   8  (w)ʿln ḏ-bqm((b<l>qm)) ml[..]
   9  [b]-Yfʿn ḥg-n k-y[...]
  10  (W)dm ḏ-Yfʿn b-m(s¹)[ʾ]—
  11  [l]-hw ʿbd-hw (Rbs²)[ms¹]—
  12  m bn Qbʿṯm (l)-h[..]—
  13  n hnt ʾʿmdn [...]
  14  [...] ʿly hnt [... ...]

Apparatus
1-2b[n Qbʿ]ṯ[m ...ʿ]—ṯt (Garbini).
8Emendation suggested in Beeston et al. 1982: 30; at the end of the line, Garbini restores ml[ʾn]
9k-y[zʾn] (Garbini).

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  Rbs²ms¹m [... ...]
   2  ʿṯt and ʾklm of the family
   3  Qbʿṯm dedicated to their Patron
   4  Wdm ḏ-Yfʿn the vinestocks
   5  ḏ-Hwrn and the rented crop-land
   6  [... ...]
   7  the vinestocks and four
   8  ibex in stone (?) [... ...]
   9  in Yfʿn, as [... ...]
  10  Wdm ḏ-Yfʿn in His oracle
  11  (to?) his servant Rbs²ms¹m
  12  of the family Qbʿṯm for [... ...]
  13  these vinestocks [... ...]
  14  [... ...] up to these [... ...]
4-5, 7,13ʾʿmdn: cf. Beeston et al. 1982: 16.
5qbl[.]: translation suggested by Beeston et al. 1982: 102.
6thḏb (a verb or a noun) is probably to be related to ḎHB II "alluvial valley" rather than ḎHB I "gold, bronze".
Beeston et al. 1982 (=SD): 16,102Beeston, Alfred F.L., al-Ghūl, Maḥmūd ʿA., Müller, Walter W. and Ryckmans, Jacques 1982. Sabaic Dictionary (English-French-Arabic). Dictionnaire Sabéen (anglais-français-arabe). Louvain-la-Neuve: Éditions Peeters / Beirut: Libraire du Liban.

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeStone inscription
MaterialStone
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Provenance
Modern siteḌulaʿ
Ancient siteḌlʿm
Geographical areaṢanʿāʾ
CountryYemen
FoundReemployed. In modern times
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Garbini 1972: 517-518, pl. II/1Garbini, Giovanni 1972. Iscrizioni sabee da Ḍulaʿ. Annali dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli, 32: 513-518, pl. I-II.