Av. Būsān 4 BynM 4
By kind permission of GOAM
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Southern Middle Sabaic | ||||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||||
| Measure of letters | 4 | ||||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Construction text - fragmentary | ||||
| Royal inscription | Yes |
TEXT
1 S²mr Y(h)[rʿs² ml](k) S¹bʾ w-ḏ-Ry(d)n w-Ḥḍr(m)wt [w-Ymnt bn Ys¹rm Yhnʿm mlk S¹bʾ w-ḏ Ry]—
2 dn bqlw w-hdbn w-brʾ w-ḥẓr wyn-hmw ḏ-Ḥ[... ...]
3 w-mr-hw Ḥwl bn mwṯr ʿdy mrym-hw w-k[... ...]
4 tḥty-hmw ʾbyt mʾdbt-hmw bny Ṯ[ʾrn ḏ-S¹lyt ... ...]
5 Mḏrʾn ḏ-b-ḫryfn ḏ-l-s¹bʿt w-[ʾrbʿ mʾtm bn ḫryf Mb]—
6 ḥḍ bn ʾbḥḍ |
| 1 | for Ymnt see Robin 2013: 131-133. |
| 3 | Ḥwl as a proper name of mr is suggested by Müller, Walter W. 2010: 171. |
| 4 | the integration might be either b-wrḫ(n) ḏ- or wrḫ-hw ḏ |
| 5-6 | the integration of the date is proposed by Robin 2005 b: 135, note 8 and Müller, Walter W. 2010: 39. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 S²mr Yhrʿs² king of Sabaʾ, ḏu-Raydān, Ḥaḍramawt and Yamnat son of Ys¹rm Yhnʿm king Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān 2 planted, constructed, built and enclosed their vineyard of Ḥ[... ...] 3 and its irrigation system (?) Ḥwl, from foundation to its top and [... ...] 4 below them the houses of their vassals, the banū Ṯʾrn ḏ-S¹lyt [... ... in the month of] 5 Mḏrʾn, in the year four hundred and seven of the era of Mb- 6 ḥḍ of ʾbḥḍ. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Baynūn, Museum, BynM 4 |
| Support type | Stone inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 32, w. 70, th. 9.5; Monogram: h. 27.5, w. 8 |
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Baynūn |
| Ancient site | Bynn |
| Geographical area | Khawlân |
| Country | Yemen |
| Archaeological context | Agricultural irrigation context |
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CULTURAL NOTES
According to the dating proposed in the lacuna at the end of l.5, S²mr Yhrʿs² wrote this text in the year of 407 him, shortly after the conquest of Ḥaḍramawt.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Avanzini 1985: 99-101, pl. 25 | Avanzini, Alessandra 1985. Problemi storici della regione di al-Ḥadāʾ nel periodo preislamico e nuove iscrizioni. Pages 53-115 in Pelio Fronzaroli (ed.). Studi Yemeniti. (Quaderni di semitistica, 14). Florence: Istituto di linguistica e di lingue orientali, Università di Firenze. |
| Müller, Walter W. 2010: 39 | Müller, Walter W. 2010. Sabäische Inschriften nach Ären datiert. Bibliographie, Texte und Glossar. (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission, 53). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. |
| Robin 2005 b | Robin, Christian J. 2005. Ḥimyar au IV siècle de l'ère chrétienne. Analyse des données chronologiques et essai de mise en ordre. Archäologische Berichte aus dem Yemen, 10: 133-151. |
| Prioletta 2013 a: 82-85, no. 3 | Prioletta, Alessia 2013. Inscriptions from the southern highlands of Yemen. The epigraphic collections of the museums of Baynūn and Dhamār. (Arabia Antica, 8). Roma: L'«Erma» di Bretschneider. |
| Robin 2013 | Robin, Christian J. 2013. À propos de Ymnt et Ymn: « nord » et « sud », « droite » et « gauche », dans les inscriptions de l'Arabie antique. Pages 119-140 in Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet, Catherine Fauveaud and Iwona Gajda (eds). Entre Carthage et l’Arabie heureuse. Mélanges offerts à François Bron. (Orient & Méditerranée, 12). Paris: de Boccard. |