RES 4725+RES 3972 Ry 196; Ja 419; Ja 531 A
Ja 419=RES 4725
By kind permission of Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale, Rome
By kind permission of Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale, Rome
- Ja 419=RES 4725
By kind permission of Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale, Rome - RES 3972
Mordtmann and Mittwoch 1931: 25 (photo)
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Relief | ||
| Measure of letters | 8 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Construction text - fragmentary |
GENERAL NOTES
| Ja 419 (Ja 531 A)=Ry 196=RES 4725. Pirenne 1966 proposed to join RES 3972 and RES 4725. |
TEXT
1 [... ...]↯(m)n bnw S¹lmn ʾdm bny Wrk(n)↯[ ... ...]↯(n) w-hs²qrn byt-hmw (Ys²)f↯ʾl b-ʿṯtr S²r(qn)
2 [... ... ]↯(w)-b-ʿṯtr w-Ns¹rm bʿly Bnʾ w-Q↯[... ... w]↯-b rdʾ w-mqymt ʾ↯mrʾ-hmw ʾlwf—
3 [d ... ... w-rṯ]↯(d)w byt-hmw Ys²fʾl ʿṯt↯[r ... ... w-Tʾlb R]↯(y)mm bn-kl nky↯m w-mhbʾs¹m
| 1 | It is uncertain if S¹lmn is a name of group; it usually occurs as a name of individual. In the central lacuna: [brʾw w-hwṯrn w-hṯb]n (Pirenne). |
| 2 | In the lacuna at the begninning of the line: [w-b s²ym-hmw Tʾlb Rymm w-] (Pirenne). In the central lacuna: probably Q[ynn ʾlh Ḫs¹ʾm w-], as in other inscriptions from Shibām al-Ġirās (Pirenne). |
| 3 | In the lacuna at the beginning of the line: [d ... ... w-bny Wrkn w-rṯ]dw (Pirenne). In the central lacuna: ʿṯt[r S²rqn w-Tʾlb R]ymm (Pirenne). |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 [... ...] of the banū S¹lmn, vassals of the banū Wrkn [... ...] and completed their house Ys²fʾl by ʿṯtr S²rqn 2 [... ...] by ʿṯtr and Ns¹rm, the two Lords of Bnʾ, and Q[... ...], with the help and the resources of their lords ʾlwf[d] 3 [... ... and committed] their house Ys²fʾl to (the protection of) ʿṯtr [... ... and Tʾlb R]ymm from any mischief and damage. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Roma, Museo Nazionale d’Arte Orientale “Giuseppe Tucci”, inv. 13016/16028 |
| Support type | Stone inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 33, w. 87, th. 12.2 (RES 4725) |
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Shibām al-Ghirās / Shibām Sukhaym |
| Ancient site | S²bmm |
| Geographical area | Banī Ḥushaysh |
| Country | Yemen |
| Found | Reemployed |
| Notes | RES 3972 was found reemployed in a house wall in Shibām al-Ghirās in 1909. RES 4725 (Ja 419) was originally copied by Tazzer in 1929 in Shibām al-Ghirās, where it was reemployed on the threshold of a house. It is now is kept in Rome. |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Ryckmans, Gonzague 1937: 262 | Ryckmans, Gonzague 1937. Inscriptions sud-arabes. Quatrième série. Le Muséon, 50: 239-268. |
| Mordtmann and Mittwoch 1931: 25-26 (RES 3972) | Mordtmann, Johannes H. and Mittwoch, Eugen 1931. Sabäische Inschriften. Rathjens-v. Wissmannsche Südarabischen-Reise. 1. Hamburg: Friederichsen, De Gruyter. |
| Ansaldi 1933: fig. 89 (RES 4725) | Ansaldi, Cesare 1933. Il Yemen nella storia e nella leggenda. (Collezione di opere e di monografie a cura del Ministero delle colonie, 17). Rome: Sindacato italiano arti grafiche. |
| Jamme 1956 a: 36-38, pl. III/419 (RES 4725) | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1956. Les antiquités sud-arabes du Museo Nazionale Romano. Monumenti antichi, 43: 1-120. |
| Pirenne 1966: 81-83 | Pirenne, Jacqueline 1966. Contribution à l'épigraphie sud-arabiques. Semitica, 16: 73-99. |
| Mazzini 2012: 236, cat. 50 (RES 4725) | Mazzini, Giovanni 2012. Catalogo. Iscrizioni. Pages 232-237 in Sabina Antonini, Paola D'Amore and Michael Jung (eds). Il trono della regina di Saba. Cultura e diplomazia fra Italia e Yemen. La Collezione Sudarabica del Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale. Rome: Artemide. |