Haram 54
Höfner 1966: 32, no. 65 (facsimile)
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Early Sabaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text - fragmentary |
TEXT
1 (Ṯ)nym bn ʿ(b)dm ḏ-
2 Ḥyr hqny Mtbn—
3 ṭyn ʾlḥẓr b-yw—
4 [m ... ...]
| 3 | we do not know whether the object of the dedication (ʾlḥẓr) is the pillar or a person. |
| 4 | The stone is broken below l.3, but the text should have continued in further lines. Robin restores b-yw[m Wtrʾl ... ...] as he notes that the inscriptions from the temple of Mtbnṭyn in Haram written in Sabaic language are mainly dated to the reign of Wtrʾl. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Ṯnym son of ʿbdm ḏ- 2 Ḥyr dedicated to Mtbnṭyn 3 ʾlḥẓr; at the time of 4 [... ...] |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Ḥurayḍa, Unknown (Private collection) |
| Support type | Stone inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Kharibat Hamdān |
| Ancient site | Hrm |
| Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī Madhab |
| Country | Yemen |
| Notes | The stone probably comes from the extra muros temple of Hrm, consecrated to the cult of the god Mtbnṭyn. |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Höfner 1966: 32, no. 65 (facsimile) | Höfner, Maria 1966. Bearbeitung der von Carl Rathjens in Sabaeica I und II in Abbildungen veröffentlichten altsüdarabischen Inschriften, sowie einiger sonstiger von ihm gesammelter Inschriftensteine. (Carl Rathjens, Sabaeica. Bericht über die archäologischen Ergebnisse seiner zweiten, dritten und vierten Reise nach Südarabien. III). (Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Völkerkunde in Hamburg, 28). Hamburg: Kommissionsverlag Cram, de Gruyter and Co.. |
| Robin 1992 a: 123-124, pl. 20/b | Robin, Christian J. 1992. Inabbaʾ, Haram, al-Kāfir, Kamna et al-Ḥarāshif. Fasc. A: Les documents. Fasc. B: Les planches. Inventaire des inscriptions sudarabiques. 1. Paris: de Boccard / Rome: Herder. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres; Istituto italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente] |
| Rossi 2022: 277-278 | Rossi, Irene 2022. The city-states of the Jawf at the dawn of Ancient South Arabian history (8th-6th centuries BCE). II. Corpus of the inscriptions. (Arabia Antica, 17/2). Roma: «L'Erma» di Bretschneider. |