YMN 19
ʿAbdallāh 1990: 76, fig 1
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Construction text |
TEXT
1 Ḫl(ḥm)[d ḏt G](l)dn (bt) bn Ḥnzm bnyt w-hw—
2 ṯrn w-h(s²qr)n bytn Tbʿm w-rdʾt bʿly-h
3 S²rḥm w-S²ʿbm w-bny-h bny Gldn ʾlfm b—
4 (l)ṭm ʿdy fdyt bn ʿḏrn w-l Ṣrwḥyn |
| 2 | Frantsouzoff 2016: 99 wrongly translates Tbʿ. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Ḫlḥmd of the family Gldn, daughter of the family Ḥnzm, built and founded 2 and completed the house Tbʿm, and she helped her two husbands 3 S²rḥm and S²ʿbm and her sons of the family Gldn with a thousand 4 coins, until she redeemed a debt from the descendants and for the man of Ṣirwāḥ (?). |
| 4 | Abdallāh translates ʿḏrn as "fine". Frantsouzoff 2016: 99 "de sorte qu'elle se soit acquittée de (son) obligation et pour (payer) le Ṣirwāḥite", other translation less probable: "pour payer une sorte de marchandise qui s'appelait 'le ṣirwāḥite'" |
| Frantsouzoff 2016: 99 | Frantsouzoff, Serguei A. 2016. Nihm. Fasc. A: Les documents. Fasc. B: Les planches. With contribution by Christian J. Robin. Inventaire des inscriptions sudarabiques. 8. Paris: De Boccard. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres; Collège de France, Laboratoire des Études Sémitiques anciennes; Académie des sciences de Russie Institut des manuscrits orientaux] |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Ṣanʿāʾ, The National Museum |
| Support type | Stone inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 45, w. 129, th. 33 |
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Unknown |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | Hamdān |
| Country | Yemen |
| Archaeological context | Urban context: Private house Tbʿm |
| Notes | For the origin of the inscription, see the mention of the banū Gldn as "ʾdm bny Hmdn" in Ja 2871. |
| Link to site record |
CULTURAL NOTES
The text could be an example of polyandry in South Arabia. The dedicator names her two husbands, but the meaning of bʿly as "two husbands" is not sure, it could have a more generic meaning: "her two masters".
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| ʿAbdallāh 1990: 76-78 (photo and facsimile) | ʿAbdallāh, Yūsuf M. 1990. Mudawwanat al-nuqūš al-yamaniyya al-qadīma. Al-Iklīl, 8/1-2: 76-78. |
| Frantsouzoff 2016: 99-100 | Frantsouzoff, Serguei A. 2016. Nihm. Fasc. A: Les documents. Fasc. B: Les planches. With contribution by Christian J. Robin. Inventaire des inscriptions sudarabiques. 8. Paris: De Boccard. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres; Collège de France, Laboratoire des Études Sémitiques anciennes; Académie des sciences de Russie Institut des manuscrits orientaux] |