Shuḍayf 2020-2
Arbach and Rossi 2020: 17, fig. 9
By kind permission of M. Arbach
By kind permission of M. Arbach
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Northern Middle Sabaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Cast | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
GENERAL NOTES
| Based on palaeographical and content analysis, the inscription is likely dated between the end of the 1st and the beginning of the 2nd c. CE. Rossi remarks that Shuḍayf 2020-2 does not contain any diagnostic feature allowing the attribution of the text to the Northern Sabaic rather than to the Central Sabaic language. However, the contextual and textual data suggest that the inscription belongs to the same cultural context as Shuḍayf 2020-1 and 3, which show Northern Middle Sabaic features: the provenance from the Yġrw temple, the typology of the inscribed object, the identification of the dedicator as the subject of the banū Gadanum (like in Shuḍayf 2020-3), and above all the formula closing the text, which is typical of the Northern Middle Sabaic inscriptions. |
TEXT
1 S²krm ʿbd bn Gd—
2 (n)m hqny ḏ-S¹mwy|
3 bʿl Yġrw ms³nd—
4 n l-ḏt hwfy-hw b-
5 ʾmlʾ w-tb(s²)r s¹—
6 tmlʾ b-ʿm-hw w-
7 l tʿs¹mn ʾḏn ḏ-
8 S¹mwy l-kl (ḏ)-ykt—
9 (rbn)-(hw)
| 9 | The line is incised on the tablet's lower rim. |
TRANSLATIONS
| French | |
1 S²krm, sujet d’ibn Gadanum, 2 a offert à dhū-Samāwī 3 maître de Yaġrū l’inscription, 4 parce qu’Il l’a satisfait avec des 5 faveurs et des annonces favorables qu’il avait 6 demandées auprès de Lui ; et pour 7 que le consentement de dhū- 8 Samāwī soit grand, pour tout ce qu’il 9 Lui demandera. |
| Arbach and Rossi 2020: 35 | Arbach, Mounir and Rossi, Irene 2020. Haram, cité antique du Jawf (Yémen): quelques bribes de dix siècles d'histoire et nouveaux textes amīrites. Semitica et Classica, 13: 19-47. 2024/01/13; https://dx.doi.org/10.1484/J.SEC.5.122979. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Artefact » Plaque » With framework |
| Material | Bronze |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Unknown |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | wādī Shuḍayf |
| Country | Yemen |
| Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple Yġrw of ḏ-S¹mwy |
| Notes | The origin of the plaque is inferred from the content of the inscription. |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Arbach and Rossi 2020: 31-32, 35-37, fig. 9 | Arbach, Mounir and Rossi, Irene 2020. Haram, cité antique du Jawf (Yémen): quelques bribes de dix siècles d'histoire et nouveaux textes amīrites. Semitica et Classica, 13: 19-47. 2024/01/13; https://dx.doi.org/10.1484/J.SEC.5.122979. |