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Arbach 3
Christian J. Robin
Arbach 1996: 250, fig. 3
Arbach 1996: 250, fig. 3
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Northern Middle Sabaic | ||
| Script | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Text direction | Right-to-left | ||
| Text appearance | Recessed | ||
| Execution technique | Incision | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Commemorative text | ||
| Royal inscription | Yes |
TEXT
1 S²ʿrm ʾwtr mlk S¹bʾ w-
2 ḏ-Rydn bn ʿlhn Nhfn m—
3 lk S¹bʾ b-kn s¹bʾ l-ḥg(g)
4 [ʾl](h)n ʿdy mḥr(mn) ḏ-Y(ġ)rw
| Below the inscription, three letters are engraved: ʾbk. According to Arbach, this could be a personal name, attested for the first time in South Arabia, or the noun ʾb followed by the second person singular suffix pronoun -k "your father". |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 S²ʿrm ʾwtr, king of Sabaʾ and 2 ḏu-Raydān, son of ʾlhn Nhfn, king 3 of Sabaʾ, when he came on the expedition to perform the pilgrimage 4 of the god to the sanctuary ḏ-Yġrw. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Rock |
| Dimensions | h. 64 (inscribed surface) |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Unknown (wādī Shuḍayf) |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | wādī Shuḍayf |
| Country | Yemen |
| Found | In situ |
| Notes | The text, found on a rock surface in the wādī Shuḍayf by the French archaeological mission in 1980, commemorates the pilgrimage for the god ḏ-S¹mwy to the sanctuary ḏ-Yġrw. |
| Link to site record |
CULTURAL NOTES
Arbach notes that the pilgrimage of the king S²ʿr ʾwtr to the sanctuary in the wādī Shuḍayf is explained by the need to control the strategic route linking the Jawf to Najrān and to Qaryat al-Fāw.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Bāfaqīh 1994 d: 38, fig. 7 | Bāfaqīh, Muḥammad ʿA. 1994. Ḏū Yaġruw wa-Amīr wa-Ḥanān fī ḍawʾ al-nuqūš. Pages 21-38 in Norbert Nebes. Arabia Felix. Beiträge zur Sprache und Kultur des vorislamischen Arabien. Festschrift Walter W. Müller zum 60. Geburtstag. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. |
| Arbach 1996: 247-248, 250 (fig. 3) | Arbach, Mounir 1996. Deux nouvelles inscriptions sudarabiques provenant du sanctuaire de dhū-s-Samāwī à Yaghrū. Egitto e Vicino Oriente, 19: 243-250. |