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RES 2638 CIH 11
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
| Script | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Text direction | Right-to-left | ||
| Text appearance | Raised | ||
| Execution technique | Incision | ||
| Chronology |
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GENERAL NOTES
| As the text is fragmentary we cannot determine whether the verb hḥdṯw entails here a dedication to the god or it is employed as a construction verb. |
TEXT
1 [... ...]m hḥdṯw qyf S²ms¹-hmw bʿlt Gḥft w-l ḥ[... ...]
2 [... ...] w-hflgn s²rʿtm ʾrḍ-hmw ḏ-Ġl[.] w-ʾqyḍ tqyḍw [... ...]
3 [... ...]bqln hs²[..] ʾ[ʿ]nb w-ʾklʾ wyn-hmw b-ʾwr((b-ʾwr)) [... ...]
| The three travellers and epigraphists, who saw the inscription, all reported different transcriptions. The text was then emended by Hommel, whose interpretation was accepted, except for a few slight alterations, by Beeston. His reading, though impossible to be entirely confirmed on the basis of the photo, is here reported. | |
| 1 | ]m is probably the end of a proper name. |
| 2 | We prefer to read hflgn following Hommel contra Beeston (hflln) (but he then corrected himself in SD: 44). The name of the land is read as Ġlb (Glaser) and Ġls¹ (Beeston). |
| 3 | At the end of the line ḏ-ʾwr as the name of the vineyard is also possible. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 [... ...] they renewed the stela of their S²ms¹, Mistress of Gḥft and [... ...] 2 [... ...] and cut a water channel for their land ḏ-Ġl[.] and (for ?) the wells they cut [... ...] 3 [... ...] planted .... the vines and the young herbage of their vineyard in (?) ʾwr[... ...]. |
| "renewed the altar-stone of their sun-goddess the lady of Gḥft ..." (Beeston). |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Stone piece (qyf) |
| Material | Stone |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Unknown |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | Unknown |
| Country | Unknown |
| Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
| Notes | The inscription was seen reemployed in one of the Ṣanʿāʾ mosques by Cruttenden, Halevy and Glaser. |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Beeston 1937 a: 5 | Beeston, Alfred F.L. 1937. Sabaean inscriptions. Oxford. |