CIAS 95.11/r 8 n° 1 AM 60.1332; Q 904; CSAI I, 158
By kind permission of GOAM
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Qatabanic » Central Qatabanic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 3 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
TEXT
1 [Ts²ʿr]m Ṯgln Dlw s¹qn(y) [ʿ]—
2 (m) (ḏ)-[D]wnm bʿl (Ḥ)ṭb T(m)[nʿ]
3 (ḥg)-[n] (tk)rb-s¹ w-(ḥ)r(g)-(s¹)[ ʿm b-]
4 [m](s¹)ʾl-(s¹ r)ṯd (Ts²)ʿrm [ʿm ḏ-Dw]—
5 [n]m ʾḫ(h)-s¹ww w-ʾ[wld-s¹m w-ṣl]—
6 (m)-s¹ bn ms¹nkrm w-(m)[s¹fʾym]
| 1 | instead of Ṯgln, it is possible to read Ṯlln. |
| 2 | Tm[nʿ] is an integration by Jamme. |
| 3-5 | All the integrations in the ll. 3-5 have been suggested by Jamme. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Ts²ʿrm Ṯgln (or Ṯlln) Dlw dedicated to ʿ- 2 m ḏ-Dwnm Master of Ḥṭb [... ...] 3 as he asked Him and ʿm ordered him in 4 His oracle; Ts²ʿrm committed to ʿm ḏ-Dw- 5 nm his brothers and their children and his sta- 6 tue against everyone who may damage or may move it. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Aden, The National Museum, NAM 2374=AM 60.1332 |
| Support type | Artefact » Base » Of statue with dedicatory inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 25, w. 21, th. 5.5 |
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Hajar Kuḥlān |
| Ancient site | Tmnʿ |
| Geographical area | Wādī Bayḥān |
| Country | Yemen |
| Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of ʿm ḏ-Dwnm bʿl Ḥṭb |
| Notes | At l.2, Jamme's integration supports a provenance of the text from Timnaʿ. The letter m is readable quite well on the stone. Moreover, it is well known that, along with a sanctuary Ḥṭbm of ʿm ḏ-Dwnm in the city of ḏ-Ġylm, principally attested in our epigraphic sources in the period D, there was also a temple Ḥṭbm in the Qatabanian capital Timnaʿ, as witnessed by some of the legal texts on the city gate (see for instance RES 3566, 4). Here we should consider the phrase bʿl (Ḥ)ṭb T(m)[nʿ] a syntactically incorrect variant of the usual bʿl Ḥṭbm b-Tmnʿ, perhaps for a real mistake made by the engraver. Palaeography speaks also in favour of this interpretation. In fact, the style is clearly of the period C (when, according to texts, the sanctuary of Timnaʿ is still existing), rather than the D one (which will exclude by it self a provenance from Timnaʿ). |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Jamme 1971 b: 133-134 | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1971. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe II. Washington. 2019/07/23; https://cuislandora.wrlc.org/islandora/object/cuislandora%3A206497#page/1/mode/1up. [Privately printed] |
| CIAS: ii, 213-215, 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] |