Language | Ancient South Arabian » Qatabanic » Central Qatabanic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
1 | bty is an hapax in the South Arabian languages. The editors suppose that it derives from the semitic root BTT "cut"; bty could be a plural form. |
4 | ʾbʿl-s¹m: it is to be noted the use of the plural pronoun suffix related to the tribe. |
English | |
1 S²krʾl, son of Lḥyʿm, (of the family) Brnṭm Rn, dedicated to Ḥwkm and to his gods, the gods of the temple S²bʿn, the dedication, the statues, all the objects (?) in bronze and all their ornaments, from the tribute and the offering that S²krʾl paid 2 and offered to Ḥwkm and to the gods of the temple S²bʿn in the city of S²bwt, as he asked Him for, and for what he should continue to ask Him for; S²krʾl entrusted to Ḥwkm and his gods his life, his faculties, his properties and his father 3 Lḥyʿm and his brother Nmrm and his sons Rnʿm, Mʿdʾl, Lḥyn and Klbm, and his lords Nbṭʿly, Yṯʾkrb and Ḏkrm, of the family Brnṭm and S¹fly. By ʿṯtr, ʿm, ʾnby and Ḥwkm and by the tutelary deities of the temple of ʿm Ryʿn, 4 and by his lord S²hr Ygl Yhrgb, king of Qatabān, and by his tribe Bklm of Mrymtm and by their owners and his brothers, the servants of the family Brnṭm. S²krʾl entrusted to Ḥwkm and his gods his dedication, against everyone who may damage and remove 5 it from its place. |
Prioletta and Arbach 2015 a: 260-261 | Prioletta, Alessia and Arbach, Mounir 2015. Inscriptions qatabānites inédites d’une collection privée yéménite. Semitica, 57: 243-271. |
Deposit | Ṣanʿāʾ (Private collection) |
Support type | Artefact » Plaque » With framework |
Material | Bronze |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Hajar al-ʿĀdī |
Ancient site | Mrymtm |
Geographical area | Wādī Ḥarīb |
Country | Yemen |
Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple S²bʿn of Ḥwkm w-ʾlhy bytn S²bʿn |
Link to site record |
Prioletta and Arbach 2015 a: 255-271, figs 3/a-d | Prioletta, Alessia and Arbach, Mounir 2015. Inscriptions qatabānites inédites d’une collection privée yéménite. Semitica, 57: 243-271. |
al-Hajj 2015 a | al-Hajj, Mohammed 2015/1436. Naqš qitbānī ǧadīd min Haǧar al-ʿĀdī - Wādī Ḥarīb. Dirāsa fī dalālāti-hā al-lughawiyya wa-l-dīniyya wa-l-taʾrīẖiyya. Maǧalla al-siyāḥa wa-l-ʾaṯār, 27/2: 163-196. |