CIAS 47.82/o6
By kind permission of GOAM
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Ḥaḍramitic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 3.2 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
TEXT
1 Ṯwybm w-bn-s¹w—
2 w Mrṯdʿm w-ʾb—
3 krb ḏhy Wdm s¹—
4 qnyw mrʾ-s¹m Wr—
5 fw ʾmrʿm ṣlmm
6 ḏhbm h-wfy-s¹m
7 w-wfy byt-s¹m ʾ—
8 ḥrr-s¹m w-ʾdm-s¹—
9 m rṯdw grwb-s¹—
10 m Wrfw mrṯdm w-
11 ʾḏnm ḏ-ynʿm h-s¹—
12 m w-kl ḏ-qnyw b-ḏ—
13 t Ġylm w-s¹r-ṯyw
| 13 | s¹rṯyw (CIAS, Jamme). |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Ṯwybm and his sons 2 Mrṯdʿm and ʾbkrb, 3 of the family Wdm, 4 dedicated to their lord 5 Wrfw ʾmrʿm a bronze 6 statue for their safety 7 and for the safety of their house, their 8 free men and their vassals. 9 They committed to the protection of 10 Wrfw their persons, as a protection 11 and as a will which is favourable to 12 them and to all they possess in ḏt 13 Ġylm and its two valleys. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Aden, The National Museum, NAM 512=AM 758 |
| Support type | Artefact » Base » Of statue with dedicatory inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 40.5, w. 17.5, th. 12 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Hajar Ibn Ḥumayd |
| Ancient site | ḏ-Ġylm / ḏt-Ġylm |
| Geographical area | Wādī Bayḥān |
| Country | Yemen |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| CIAS: i, 159-163, photo | Beeston, Alfred F.L., Pirenne, Jacqueline and Robin, Christian J. 1977-1986. Corpus des inscriptions et antiquités sud-arabes: Vol. I (1977): Tome 1. Inscriptions. Tome 2. Antiquités; Vol. II (1986): Le Musée d’Aden. Tome 1. Inscriptions. Tome 2. Antiquités. Louvain: Peeters. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres] |
| Bāfaqīh et al. 1985: 320-321 | Bāfaqīh, Muḥammad ʿA., Beeston, Alfred F.L., Robin, Christian J. and al-Ghūl, Maḥmūd ʿA. 1985. Muḫtārāt min al-nuqūš al-yamaniyya al-qadīma. Tūnis: al-Munaẓẓama al-ʿArabiyya li-l-Tarbiya wa-l-Ṯaqāfa wa-l-ʿUlūm, Idāra al-Ṯaqāfa. |
| Jamme 1988: 13-17 | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1988. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe XVI. Washington. 2019/07/23; https://cuislandora.wrlc.org/islandora/object/cuislandora%3A202307#page/1/mode/1up. [Privately printed] |
| Avanzini 2006-2007: 59-60, fig. 1 | Avanzini, Alessandra 2006-2007. The CSAI project: some general remarks on the Hadramitic corpus. Folia Orientalia, 42/43: 57-70. |