Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Late Sabaic | ||||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||||
Writing technique | Relief | ||||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Construction text |
3 | the king's epithet is written Ynwf in Gar Antichità 9d,2. |
4 | for Ymnt see Robin 2013: 131-133. |
6 | at the beginning, the two first words are read by Müller. The end of the line is based on the editor's reading; the text is not readable from the photo. |
English | |
[... ...] 1 in bronze. They built all (the construction) in undressed stones and in smooth stones of their house Ykrb in one year; and in that year they undertook (the construction) 2 by completing (the work). Moreover, they provided their house Yrs¹ with two lions in bronze and all the bronze (objects) with which they provided their two houses belong 3 exclusively to them. They built their house with the assistance and the help of Rḥmnn, most merciful, and with the assistance and the aid of their lord Mrṯdʾln Ynf 4 king of Sabaʾ, ḏu-Raydān, Ḥaḍramawt, Yamanat, their Arabs of Ṭwdm and of Thmt, and with the assistance and the aid of their lords, their protectors, 5 Lḥyʿt Ynf ḏ-Hṣbḥ and S²rḥbʾl ʾs¹ʿd ḏ-Mʿfrm and with the assistance of their brother Wfym Yrḫm ḏ-ʿṯkln and with the 6 assistance, the protection and their brothers and the tribal confederation of Sabaʾ Khln. In the month of ḏ-Mḏrʾn of the year six hundred fourteen. May Rḥmnn give prosperity to Ykrb and to Yrs¹. |
2 | "they provided it with plant ornamentation" (Müller). |
Support type | Inscription on architectural structure |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 36, w. 195 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Maʾrib |
Ancient site | Mryb / Mrb |
Geographical area | Maʾrib |
Country | Yemen |
Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
Archaeological context | Urban context: Private house Yrs¹ |
Link to site record |
Ryckmans, Gonzague 1952: 46-49 | Ryckmans, Gonzague 1952. Epigraphical texts. Ahmed Fakhry, An archaeological Journey to Yemen (March-May 1947). ii. Cairo: Government Press. |
Müller, Walter W. 1976 a: 62-67, pl. IV/5-6 | Müller, Walter W. 1976. Neuinterpretation altsüdarabischer Inschriften: RES 4698, CIH 45+44, Fa 74. Annali dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli, 36/1: 55-67. |
Schmidt 1987: 139, 140, pls 14/d, 18/a | Schmidt, Jürgen 1987. Antiken aus dem Stadtgebiet von Mārib. Archäologische Berichte aus dem Yemen, 4: 131-142. |
Gajda 1997: 68-70 | Gajda, Iwona 1997. Ḥimyar gagné par le monothéisme (IVe-VIe siècle de l'ère chrétienne). Ambitions et ruine d'un royaume de l'Arabie méridionale antique. (Université d'Aix-en-Provence). |
Müller, Walter W. 2010: 89-90 | Müller, Walter W. 2010. Sabäische Inschriften nach Ären datiert. Bibliographie, Texte und Glossar. (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission, 53). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. |
Ryckmans, Jacques 1964 | Ryckmans, Jacques 1964. Le christianisme en Arabie du Sud préislamique. Pages 413-543 in L'Oriente cristiano nella Storia della Civiltà. Atti del Convegno Internazionale sul tema: l'Oriente cristiano nella Storia della Civiltà. (Roma 31 marzo-3 aprile 1963; Firenze 4 aprile 1963). Rome: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. |
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. |