Jabal Riyām 2006-28 Gl 1213; Gr 198
Arbach and Schiettecatte 2017: 193, fig. 11
By kind permission of Jérémie Schiettecatte
By kind permission of Jérémie Schiettecatte
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text - fragmentary |
GENERAL NOTES
| Gr 198 does not provide the edition of the text. |
TEXT
[... ...]
1 [...]mn [...h]mw T[ʾlb w-]
2 [b-ḏ]t s¹ʿd-hw brw-hw ʾs¹ʾr w-b-ḏt y(s²)[f]
3 ʾwldm ʾḏkrm hnʾm w-l-s¹ʿd-hm[w]
4 rḍ(w) ʾmrʾ-hmw bny Hmdn w-l s¹ʿd
5 [...](y) ʾrḍ-hmw w-ms²ymtm w-
6 [... s²](ṣy) s²nʾm w-b-mqm s²[y—
7 m-hmw Tʾlb Rymm]
TRANSLATIONS
| French | |
1 … … …] Ta[ʾlab et] 2 parce qu’Il lui a accordé son fils Asʾar et pour qu’Il protège 3 des enfants mâles bien portants et pour qu’Il leur accorde 4 la satisfaction de leurs seigneurs du lignage de Hamdān et pour qu’Il accorde 5 … leur territoire et leur champ et 6 … la malveillance d’un ennemi. Et par la puissance de leur 7 [seigneur Taʾlab Riyāmum]. |
| Arbach and Schiettecatte 2017: 193, fig. 11 | Arbach, Mounir and Schiettecatte, Jérémie 2017. Inscriptions sabéennes du Jabal Riyām (Yémen) et nouvel éclairage sur les rois de Sabaʾ au IIe siècle de l’ère chrétienne. Semitica et Classica, 10: 179-193. 2019/10/01; https://doi.org/10.1484/J.SEC.5.114953. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Stone inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Jabal Riyām |
| Ancient site | Trʿt |
| Geographical area | Arḥab |
| Country | Yemen |
| Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
| Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of Tʾlb Rymm |
| Notes | The inscription has been seen and photographed inside a courtyard of a private house in the village of Riyām. |
| Link to site record |
CULTURAL NOTES
The banū Hamdān is the main lineage name of the tribe Ḥāshid, which constituted, with the banū Bataʿ, a royal Sabaean dinasty.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Bauer and Lundin 1998: 63, fig. 178 | Bauer, Gleb M. and Lundin (=Loundine), Avraam G. 1998. Pamjatniki Drevnej Istorii i Kultury. Južnaja Aravija. Part 2: Epigraficheskie pamjiatniki drevnego Jemena. 2. St.-Petersburg: Zentr "Peterburgskoe vostokovedenie". [Akademia nauk, Institut Vostokovedenija, Sankt-Peterburgskiy filial] |
| Arbach and Schiettecatte 2017: 193, fig. 11 | Arbach, Mounir and Schiettecatte, Jérémie 2017. Inscriptions sabéennes du Jabal Riyām (Yémen) et nouvel éclairage sur les rois de Sabaʾ au IIe siècle de l’ère chrétienne. Semitica et Classica, 10: 179-193. 2019/10/01; https://doi.org/10.1484/J.SEC.5.114953. |