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 transcribed the text in a paragraph arrangement that did not respect the original disposition of the lines. |
1 | In Iryānī's South Arabian transcription: mrʾ-hmw ʾlmqh and mrʾ-hmw Ys¹rm. |
2 | In Iryānī's South Arabian transcription: ʾḏnm. In Iryānī's Arabic transcription: w-l-hʿn-hw. |
English | |
1 S²rḥʿṯt [... ...], of the family Ṣwbn, dedicated to his Lord ʾlmqh, Lord of ʾwm, the statue in bronze in praise because He saved His servant S²rḥʿṯt from the illness of which he suffered in the town of Mrb; may ʾlmqh continue to protect and save His servant S²rḥʿṯt from any evil and mischief, and may He grant them the goodwill and the satisfaction of his lord Ys¹rm Yhnʿm and his son Ḏrʾʾmr ʾymn, kings of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān and Ḥaḍramawt and Ymnt; 2 may He grant His servant children from his wife ʾbḥmd, daughter of the family Ḥywm, and may He grant to them soundness of faculties and material resources in war and peace; may He deliver them from the malice and the maleficence of any enemy, and may He grant to them cereal crops of spring and autumn in all their land and their vineyards and abundance of summer crops and harvest season and rain season, and may He protect his hand and his tongue. By ʾlmqh, Lord of ʾwm. |
2 | For the season ʿln, see Ryckmans 1975 a: 206-207 and note 10. |
Deposit | Ṣanʿāʾ, al-Kuhālī collection (Private collection) |
Support type | Artefact » Base » Of statue with dedicatory inscription |
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 |
Sharafaddīn 1967: 81-82 | Sharafaddīn, Aḥmad H. 1967. Taʾrīḫ al-Yaman al-ṯaqāfī. Cairo. |
al-Iryānī 1973: 153-154 | al-Iryānī, Muṭahhar 1973. Fī taʾriḫ al-Yaman. Cairo. |
Ryckmans, Jacques 1975 a: 203-208 | Ryckmans, Jacques 1975. Ḥimyaritica 5. Le Muséon, 88: 199-219. |
al-Iryānī 1990: 187-189 | al-Iryānī, Muṭahhar 1990. Fī-taʾrīḫ al-Yaman. Nuquš musnadiya wa-taʿliqāt. Ṣanʿāʾ: Markaz al-dirāsāt wa-l-buḥūṯ al-Yamanī. |