Ja 2484
Jamme 1972: pl. 19
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Late Sabaic | ||||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Legal text | ||||
| Royal inscription | Yes |
TEXT
1 Mʿdkrb Yʿfr mlk
2 S¹bʾ w-ḏ-Rydn w-Ḥḍrmt
3 w-Ymnt w-ʾʿrb-hmw Ṭwdm w-Thm[t]
4 [hw]rw ḏn wtfn b-Rḥmn k-gmʿ blwdn
5 [b-k]n s¹bʾ Ḏrḥn b-wrḫn Ḫrfn ḏ-l-ʾ[ḥd w-ṯlṯy w-s¹ṯ mʾtm]
| 3 | for Ymnt see Robin 2013: 131-133. |
| 4 | Jamme's integration is based on the parallel with Ry 510,3, where however a reading hwr is not certain. Perhaps, Rḥmn is a mistaken for the toponym Rḥbn, in any case it is not the name of the God. |
| 5 | Jamme integrates: [ʾl]n. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Mʿdkrb Yʿfr, king 2 of Sabaʾ, ḏu-Raydān, Ḥaḍramawt, 3 Yamanat and their Arabs of Ṭwdm and of Thmt 4 proclaimed this concessionary document in Rḥmn, when he assembled the lands 5 when Ḏrḥn carried out an expedition, in the month of Ḫrfn, the year [six hundred thirty-one] |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Rock inscription |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Jabal aṣ-Ṣafāʾ |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | Tathlīth |
| Country | Saudi Arabia |
| Found | In situ |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Jamme 1972: 85-86, pl. 19 (facsimile) | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1972. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe III. Washington. 2019/07/23; https://cuislandora.wrlc.org/islandora/object/cuislandora%3A206336#page/1/mode/1up. [Privately printed] |
| Gajda 1997: 89-91 | Gajda, Iwona 1997. Ḥimyar gagné par le monothéisme (IVe-VIe siècle de l'ère chrétienne). Ambitions et ruine d'un royaume de l'Arabie méridionale antique. (Université d'Aix-en-Provence). |
| Müller, Walter W. 2010: 97 | Müller, Walter W. 2010. Sabäische Inschriften nach Ären datiert. Bibliographie, Texte und Glossar. (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission, 53). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. |
| Robin 2013 | Robin, Christian J. 2013. À propos de Ymnt et Ymn: « nord » et « sud », « droite » et « gauche », dans les inscriptions de l'Arabie antique. Pages 119-140 in Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet, Catherine Fauveaud and Iwona Gajda (eds). Entre Carthage et l’Arabie heureuse. Mélanges offerts à François Bron. (Orient & Méditerranée, 12). Paris: de Boccard. |