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 | Dedicatory text |
Iryānī gives a division of the text into paragraphs, without respecting the lines. |
English | |
1 ʾws¹lt Rfs²n and Yrm ʾymn and his son Ḥywʿṯtr Yḍʿ, of the family Hmdn, ʾqwl of the tribe S¹mʿy, third-part of ḏ-Ḥs²dm, dedicated to ʾlmqh Ṯhwn, the Lord of ʾwm this statue, as He ordered in His oracle, for the safety of Yrm, of the family Hmdn; might ʾlmqh, the Lord of ʾwm, grant to them the favour and the goodwill of their master Wtrm Yhʾmn, the king of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān, son of ʾls²rḥ Yḥḍb, the king of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān; might He grant to them male and healthy children 2 and might He grant to ʾws¹lt and to the family Hmdn prosperity and safety, good fruits and crops in their land and valleys, in what is and will be favourable for the family Hmdn and their tribe Ḥs²dm; might He deliver them from maleficence and the enemy's malefice. By ʿṯtr, Hbs¹, ʾlmqh, by ḏt Ḥmym,by ḏt Bʿdn, by the solar deity of the king Tnf, by their Patron Tʾlb Rymm. They committed their dedication to ʾlmqh, the Lord of ʾwm. |
Deposit | Ṣanʿāʾ, Unknown (Private collection) |
Support type | Artefact » Base » Of stela or statue |
Material | Stone |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Maḥram Bilqīs |
Ancient site | ʾwm |
Geographical area | Maʾrib |
Country | Yemen |
Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of ʾlmqh bʿl ʾwm |
Link to site record |
al-Iryānī 1973: 22-25 | al-Iryānī, Muṭahhar 1973. Fī taʾriḫ al-Yaman. Cairo. |
Ryckmans, Jacques 1974: 240 | Ryckmans, Jacques 1974. Himyaritica 3. Le Muséon, 87: 237-263. |
al-Iryānī 1990: 57-60 | al-Iryānī, Muṭahhar 1990. Fī-taʾrīḫ al-Yaman. Nuquš musnadiya wa-taʿliqāt. Ṣanʿāʾ: Markaz al-dirāsāt wa-l-buḥūṯ al-Yamanī. |
Robin 2012 a: 16 | Robin, Christian J. 2012. Matériaux pour une typologie des divinités arabiques et de leurs représentations.. Pages 7-118 in Isabelle Sachet (ed.). Dieux et déesses d'Arabie. Images et représentations. Actes de la table ronde tenue au Collège de France (Paris) les 1er et 2 octobre 2007. Paris: De Boccard. [en collaboration avec Christian Julien Robin] |