Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Measure of letters | 3 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
English | |
1 ʾlwhb[ ... ...]m and ʾws¹ʿṯt 2 of the family ʿblm, dedicated to ʾlmqh, Lord 3 of ʾwm, the statue in bronze for the safety 4 of their son Ḍbʿn, whom ʾlmqh caused 5 ʾws¹ʾl, of the family ʿblm, to name so; and may 6 ʾlmqh add to them and to their son ʾws¹ʾl children and properties. By ʿṯtr 7 and by ʾlmqh. |
4-5 | Jamme: "of their son Ḍbʿn whom ʾlmqh has named ʾws¹ʾl". |
Deposit | Mārib |
Support type | Artefact » Base » Of statue with dedicatory inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 28.2, w. 37.6, th. 15 |
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 |
Jamme 1962 a: 195, pl. 27 | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1962. Sabaean Inscriptions from Maḥram Bilqîs (Mârib). (Publications of the American Foundation for the Study of Man, 3). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press. |
Ryckmans, Jacques 1981 c: 288-290 | Ryckmans, Jacques 1981. Un parallèle sud-arabe à l'imposition du nom de Jean-Baptiste et de Jésus. Pages 283-294 in Roswitha G. Stiegner (ed.). al-Hudhud. Festschrift Maria Höfner zum 80. Geburtstag. Graz: Karl-Franzens-Universität. |
Jamme 1982: 7-16 | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1982. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe XII. Washington. 2019/07/23; https://cuislandora.wrlc.org/islandora/object/cuislandora%3A204548#page/1/mode/1up. [Privately printed] |