Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Measure of letters | 3.5 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
Gr 201 does not provide the edition of the text. |
9 | M. Höfner reads ks²ft-hw instead of ks²t-hw (1981: 40). |
English | |
1 [ʾws¹l]t Rfs²n, son of ʾʿyn, [dedicated to his Pa- 2 tron] Tʾlb Rymm, Lord of Trʿt, [this statue], 3 as He ordered in His oracle, [in praise 4 because] Tʾlb bestowed and protected [His servant] 5 ʾws¹lt, when He is granting him to acquire [… …] 6 the alliance of his son Ns²ʾkrb, son of […] 7 by His oracle; and ʾws¹lt gave praise to the m[ight of Tʾ- 8 lb because] He had bestowed and protected (him) in [His oracle], 9 as He promised him; and may [Tʾlb] to continue to 10 grant His servant ʾws¹lt with healthy male children 11 and to bestow him with the fulfillment of all that he asked 12 from Him; may He grant them health for him [and 13 he]alth for their children; and may He protect them from male[ficence], 14 hostile acts and malice of any enemy; and may He gr[ant them] 15 healthy crops in their land 16 and] their fields. By Tʾlb Rymm. |
Solá Solé 1964: 20-22 | Solá Solé, Josep M. 1964. Inschriften aus Riyām. Sammlung Eduard Glaser. 4. (Sitzungsberichte der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 243/4). Vienna: Böhlaus. |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 68, w. 37 |
Link to object record |
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 |
Link to site record |
Solá Solé 1964: 20-22, pl. VI/1 | Solá Solé, Josep M. 1964. Inschriften aus Riyām. Sammlung Eduard Glaser. 4. (Sitzungsberichte der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 243/4). Vienna: Böhlaus. |
Höfner 1981: 40 | Höfner, Maria 1981. Sabäische Inschriften. (Letzte Folge). Sammlung Eduard Glaser. 14. (Sitzungsberichte der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 378). Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. |
Bauer and Lundin 1998: 64, fig.181 a,b | 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: 189-190, fig. 8 | 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. |