CSAI

Corpus of Sabaic Inscriptions (work in progress)


INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

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

TEXT


      [... ...]
   1  [... ...] w-dṯʾ w-ʾws¹ʿm w-ml[t]m w-nʾd ʾṯmrm [w]-ʾ—
   2  [fq]lm ʿdy kl ʾrḍt w-ʾs¹rr w-ms²ymt ʾby[t-h]—
   3  mw w-ʾs²ʿb-hmw b-qyẓ w-dṯʾ w-ṣrb w-mlym dr—
   4  [m d]rm w-l gyb-hmw bn kl qmʿtm w-tḫybn
   5  [... ... w-b]n nḍʿ w-s²ṣy s²nʾm w-mhbʾs¹m w-l w[ḍʿ]
   6  w-ṯbr ḍr-hmw w-s²nʾ-hmw Tʾlb Rymm

Apparatus
CIH's reading.
Before the first preserved line and at the beginning of it CIH suggests: ... ḥg-n s¹ʿd-hmw Tʾlb Rymm frʿ qyẓ].
5w-nkym w-b]n (CIH).

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  [... ...]
   2  [... ...] and spring, and (?), winter crops and abundance of harvests and
   3  crops in all the lands and valleys and cultivated areas of their families
   4  and their tribes, in the summer season, spring, harvest season and winter, time
   5  after time; and may He protect them against every victory and drought (?)
   6  [and mischief], and against the harm and malice of any enemy and ill-intentioned person, and may Tʾlb Rymm humiliate
   7  and destroy their opponent and their enemy.

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeStone inscription
MaterialStone
Measuresh. 22, w. 65
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin
Modern siteḤāz
Ancient siteḤzym
Geographical areaHamdān
CountryYemen
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