Ja 727 MaMB 215
Jamme 1962 a: pl. 34
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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 | 2.8 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
GENERAL NOTES
| The style and the writing are rough; the letters n are reversed. |
TEXT
1 S¹ʿdʾwm ḏ-ʿf—
2 m- w-bny-h S¹lmm bn—
3 w-ʿfm ʾmrn ḥwr h—
4 grn Ns²qm w-S¹ʿdʾ—
5 wm f-rṯd mrʾ-hw
6 ʾlmqhw bʿl-ʾw—
7 m bn-hw S¹lmm l-ḥ<y>w
8 grbt-hmw w-hqnyw-ṣ—
9 lmm ḏ-ḏhbm w-l-s¹ʿdn-h
10 wl<d>m w-fqlm
| 9-10 | We can hypothesize a haplography of w at the beginning of the line 10: w-l-s¹ʿdn-hw <w>l<d>m. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 S¹ʿdʾwm, of the family ʿfm 2 and his son S¹lmm, of the family 3 ʿfm ʾmrn, inhabitant of the 4 town of Ns²qm, and S¹ʿdʾwm 5 he committed to his lord 6 ʾlmqhw, Lord of ʾwm, 7 his son S¹lmm for the life 8 of their persons; they dedicated the 9 statue in bronze, and may He grant him 10 child and crops. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Mārib |
| Support type | Artefact » Base » Of statue with dedicatory inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 32.8, w. 30.3, th. 6.5 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| 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 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Jamme 1962 a: 207-208, pl. 34 | 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. |
| Nebes 1995 a: 136, 204 | Nebes, Norbert 1995. Die Konstruktionen mit /fa-/ im Altsüdarabischen. Syntaktische und epigraphische Untersuchungen. (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission, 40). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. |