Ryckmans restores l.1: [ʿlhn w-bny-hw S²ʿrm mlky] and l.2: [hqnyy ʾlmqh bʿl Brʾn ḏ]n, implying that there is not a missing line 0, nor a missing left part of the stone. Jamme, on the base of the parallels CIH 308 and CIH 693, restores the complete proper names and suggests that a line 0 should have mentioned the rent collectors of l. 7, as they probably were the authors of the inscription. We have restored the royal names in l. 1, although it is possible, as Jamme shows, that they originally were in the previous line.
1-2
[hqny ʾlmqh bʿl Brʾn (CIH).
4
b-ḏ[n ḫrfn ... ...] (CIH).
5
s¹]ʾl (CIH).
6
kwn]t (CIH).
OBJECT INFORMATION
Deposit
Istanbul, Ancient Orient Museum, 7473
Support type
Artefact » Base » Of statue with dedicatory inscription
Ryckmans, Jacques 1951. Yarim Ayman II, roi de Saba (CIH 308, 328, 401 et 693). Le Muséon, 64: 133-150.
Jamme 1962 a: 291-292
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.