Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Measure of letters | 3.8 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Dedicatory text - fragmentary |
English | |
1 ʾlʿṯt and ʾws¹ʿṯt and [...] and S²rḥʾl, descendants of the clan ʿblm, and their sons ʾlwhb and Drs¹m and Dws¹m and Gnʾn, descendants of the clan ʿblm, dedicated to their Lord 2 ʾlmqh, Lord of ʾwm, [...] and these eight images in bronze, by which ʾlʿṯt and ʾws¹ʿṯt and [...] have sought Him favour [... ...] and 3 S²rḥʾl, descendants of the clan ʿblm, and for their sons ʾlwhb and Drs¹m and Dws¹m and Gnʾn, descendants of the clan ʿblm, for their safety and the safety of their lives and of their sons and of their 4 children and of their properties; and because ʾlmqh may add to them healthy children and properties and prosperity of faculties and power; and because ʾlmqh may help and save them 5 from misfortunes and mischief and from ʿqd and qmt and from the host and the encirclement of enemy; and because ʾlmqh has saved them and will save them, as He promised him. By 6 ʿṯtr and by Hwbs¹ and by ʾlmqh and by ḏt Ḥmym and by ḏt Bʿdnm and by their two lords Ydʿʾl, son of Krbʾl Byn, king of Sabaʾ, and his brother 7 ʾls²rḥ, son of S¹mhʿly Ḏrḥ, and by their tribe Fys²n; and the descendants of the clan ʿblm have committed to ʾlmqh their dedication against its damage and its removal 8 and its conceal. |
Deposit | Mārib |
Support type | Artefact » Base » Of statue with dedicatory inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 270, w. 42, th. 47.5 |
Link to object record |
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 |
Jamme 1962 a: 24-28 | 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 1994: 198 | Nebes, Norbert 1994. Verwendung und Funktion der Präfixkonjugation im Sabäischen. Pages 191-211 in Norbert Nebes. Arabia Felix. Beiträge zur Sprache und Kultur des vorislamischen Arabien. Festschrift Walter W. Müller zum 60. Geburtstag. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. |