YM 23206
Mille et al. 2010: 11-12, figg 4-7
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Early Sabaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 1.6 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
GENERAL NOTES
| The text is incised in double trait. |
TEXT
1 Hwt(r)ʿṯt bn Rḍwʾl bn S²l—
2 lm ʿbd ḏ-Mḏb hqny ʾlmqh bʿl bk<l>—
3 n Ns²qm mṯln ḏ-ḏhbn bn frʿt frʿ-
4 hw hʾ w-ʾb-hw Rḍwʾl w-Lḥyʿṯt w-b—
5 n-hw Rʾbʿṯt w-kl [|] ʾnṯ-hw w-wld-hw |
6 w-qny-hw w-ʾbyt-hw b-[M](r)y(b) w-Ns²qm w-kl ʾn—
7 ḫl-hw w-ʾʿnb-hw w-ʿbrt-hw b-s¹yr Ns²—
8 qm ywm hwfy-hw ʾlmqh ḏt tnbʾ-hw b-
9 ʿṯtr w-ʾlmqh w-b-ḏt-Ḥmym w-b ḏt Bʿ—
10 dnm w-b-ḏt Ns²qm w-b-Ydʿʾl Byn mlk S¹b—
11 ʾ w-b mrʾ-hw Ys²rḥʾl w-ʾl{|}s²rḥ ḏy Mḏ—
12 b w-(b)-(ʾ)b-hw Rḍwʾl |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Hwtrʿṯt son of Rḍwʾl, of the family S²llm, 2 servant of him of Mḏb dedicated to ʾlmqh, Lord of the colonists 3 of Ns²qm, the image in bronze from the first fruits that he offered Him, 4 he and his father Rḍwʾl and Lḥyʿṯt 5 and his son Rʾbʿṯt and all his wives, his children, 6 and his properties and his houses in Mrb and in Ns²qm, and all 7 his palmgroves and his vineyards and his fields in the territory 8 of Ns²qm, when ʾlmqh granted him what He promised him; 9 by ʿṯtr and ʾlmqh and by ḏt-Ḥmym and by 10 ḏt Bʿdnm and by ḏt Ns²qm, and by Ydʿʾl Byn, king of Sabaʾ, 11 and by his two masters Ys²rḥʾl and ʾls²rḥ, the two of Mḏb, 12 and by his father Rḍwʾl. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Ṣanʿāʾ, The National Museum, YM 23206 |
| Support type | Artefact » Sculpture in the round » Human figure |
| Material | Bronze |
| Measures | h. 140, w. 46, th. 16 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | al-Bayḍāʾ |
| Ancient site | Ns²qm |
| Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī al-Buhayra |
| Country | Yemen |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Arbach and Audouin 2007: 33-35, 32 (photo) | Arbach, Mounir and Audouin, Rémy 2007. Collection of Epigraphic and Archaeological Artifacts from al-Jawf Sites. Ṣanʿâʾ National Museum. 2. Ṣanʿāʾ: UNESCO-SFD / Ṣanʿāʾ: National Museum. [Text in English and Arabic] |
| Mille et al. 2010: 15-19, figs 13 (facsimile), 14 (photo) | Gajda, Iwona, Benoît, Mille, Demange, Françoise, Pariselle, Christine, Coquinot, Yvan, Porto, Élisa, Tavoso, Olivier and Zink, Antoine 2010. Hawtarʾathat, fils de Raḍawʾil, du lignage de Shalalum. Une grande statue de bronze du royaume de Sabaʾ (Yémen). Monuments et Mémoires de la Fondation Eugène Piot, 89: 5-68. |