RES 4324 Q 172; CSAI II, 13
By kind permission of Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Qatabanic » Marginal Qatabanic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text - fragmentary |
TEXT
1 [... ...]
2 [... ...]btgḫ w-ws³ʿ[ ... ... ṣ]—
3 dqm ḏ-s¹wld bn fḫḏ-s¹ mrʾ(m) [... ... ḏ-ys¹]—
4 myn ʾbḏḫr w-b-ḏt mtʿ-s¹ ʿm b-ʾywm bʿ[w]
5 w-dmr ʾbʿm bn Mʿhr hgrn ʿgz w-s¹w f-k—
6 s³ʾ S¹bʾm l-qrḥn w-ʿql-s¹ b-ms¹ʾl-s¹ ʿd Yfʿ
| 2 | w-ws³ʿ[m ʿm wld-s¹ ṣ] (RES). |
| 6 | S¹bʾm is attested only here. At the line 5 the author of the text is named ʾbʿm. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 [... ...] 2 [... ...] (the god) granted ... a son in good 3 health who was born from his loins, a male, whose name 4 is ʾbḏḫr. And ʿm saved him in the days when ʾbʿm he of Mʿhr assaulted 5 and destroyed the town ʿgz. And He ordered to S¹bʾm 6 in His oracle in Yfʿ regarding the wound and its price. |
| Avanzini 2004 a: 522 | Avanzini, Alessandra 2004. Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions I-III. Qatabanic, Marginal Qatabanic, Awsanite Inscriptions. (Arabia Antica, 2). Pisa: Edizioni Plus-Università di Pisa. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Wien, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Sem 800 |
| Support type | Stone inscription |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Unknown |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | Unknown |
| Country | Unknown |
| Link to site record |
CULTURAL NOTES
The ravaged town ʿgz that is mentioned in the inscription (l. 5) has been identified by J. Schiettecatte with a modern village named al-ʿAjiz, near the village of Hajar al-Ṭālib, in wādī Markha (2011: 169).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Schiettecatte 2011 | Schiettecatte, Jérémie 2011. D'Aden à Zafar. Villes d'Arabie du Sud préislamique. (Orient et Méditerranée, 6). Paris: de Boccard. |