Ja 623 MaMB 238
Jamme 1962 a: pl. 13
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 2.5 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
TEXT
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1 [. Yḥmd Yz](ʾ)n w-ʾḥmd Yzd bn Grt
2 w-(ʾ)nbr mhrgtm w-ġnmm ḏ-yhrḍwn-
3 hmw b-ʾhn-mw ys²wʿnn mrʾ-hmw Ns²ʾk—
4 rb Yʾmn Yhrḥb mlk S¹bʾ w-ḏ-Rydn w-
5 b-ʾhn-mw yqhn-hmw mrʾ-hmw Ns²ʾkrb
6 Yhʾmn Yhrḥb mlk S¹bʾ w-ḏ-Rydn
7 l-s¹bʾ w-l-ḫmr ʾlmqh-Ṯhwn-bʿl-ʾwm
8 ʾdm-hw ʾbkrb ʾṣḥḥ w-bny-hw Yḥ—
9 md Yzʾn w-ʾḥmd Yzd bny Grt w-ʾ—
10 nbr ḥẓy w-rḍw mrʾ-hmw Ns²ʾkrb Yh—
11 ʾmn Yhrḥb mlk S¹bʾ w-ḏ-Rydn w-l-ḫm—
12 r-hmw ʾlmqh-Ṯhwn-bʿl-ʾwm frʿ ʾm—
13 yrt dṯʾ w-ḫrf w-s¹<ʿ>s¹ʿm w-mlym ḏ-yhrḍ—
14 yn-hmw ʿdy kl ʾrḍt-hmw w-mfnt-hmw
15 w-ʾs¹rr-hmw w-mqyẓ-hmw w-ʿbrt-hmw
16 w-ms²ymt-hmw w-l-s¹ʿd-hmw ʾlmqh-Ṯ—
17 hwn-bʿl-ʾwm nʿmtm w-mngt ṣdqm
18 w-bry ʾʾḏnm w-mqymtm w-l-ḫryn-hm—
19 w ʾlmqh-Ṯhwn-bʿl-ʾwm <bn >bʾs¹tm w-nk—
20 ytm w-myqẓm w-ʾʾrḫ s¹wʾm w-nḍʿ w-s²—
21 ṣy w-tṯʿt s²nʾm ḏ-rḥq w-qrb ḏ-bn-h—
22 w dʿw w-ḏ-bn-hw ʾl-dʿw b-ʾlmqh-Ṯhwn
23 bʿl-ʾwm
| 1 | Jamme integrates five lines (a,b,c,1,2) before the first one readable on the stone (our line 1 corresponds to line 3 in Jamme's edition). |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
[... ...] 1 Yḥmd Yzʾn and ʾḥmd Yzd, of the families Grt 2 and ʾnbr, killings and booty that will satisfy 3 them whenever they will perform service with their lord Ns²ʾkrb 4 Yʾmn Yhrḥb, king of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān, and 5 whenever their lord Ns²ʾkrb 6 Yhʾmn Yhrḥb, king of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān, will order them 7 to go on an expedition; may ʾlmqh Ṯhwn, Lord of ʾwm, 8 grant His servants ʾbkrb ʾṣḥḥ and his sons Yḥmd 9 Yzʾn and ʾḥmd Yzd, of the families Grt and 10 ʾnbr, the goodwill and the satisfaction of their lord Ns²ʾkrb 11 Yhʾmn Yhrḥb, king of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān, and may 12 ʾlmqh Ṯhwn, Lord of ʾwm, grant them first-fruits of 13 cereals of spring and fall and summer and winter that will satisfy 14 them in all their lands and their fields irrigated by canals 15 and their valleys and their summer crops and their wādī-side cultivations 16 and their fields; may ʾlmqh 17 Ṯhwn, Lord of ʾwm, grant them prosperity and good luck 18 and soundness of faculties and material resources, and may 19 ʾlmqh Ṯhwn, Lord of ʾwm, deliver them from any evil and mischief 20 affliction and bad affairs and the malice and the 21 maleficence and the slander of any enemy, the one far and near, of which 22 they are aware of and of which they are not aware of. By ʾlmqh Ṯhwn, 23 Lord of ʾwm. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Artefact » Base » Of statue with dedicatory inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 75.8, w. 23, th. 24 ca. |
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Maḥram Bilqīs |
| Ancient site | ʾwm |
| Geographical area | Maʾrib |
| Country | Yemen |
| Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of ʾlmqh Ṯhwn bʿl ʾwm |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Jamme 1962 a: 122-123, pl. 13 | 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. |