DJE 17
Müller, Walter W. 1972 b: pl. XIII, fig. 40
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Construction text |
TEXT
1 Rms¹m w-ʿms¹mʿ w-Ḏrḥʾl w-bn-h—
2 mw Yṯʿm w-Brqm bnw Rms¹m w-
3 S¹myʿm brʾw mḥrm s²ms¹-hmw W—
4 ynn b-mlʾ w-ms¹ʾl Tʾlb Rymm
5 w-b-qht w-ms¹ʾl S²ms¹m ḏ-Wynn
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Rms¹m and ʿms¹mʿ and Ḏrḥʾl and their 2 sons Yṯʿm and Brqm of the clan Rms¹m and 3 S¹myʿm built the temple of their solar deity 4 Wynn, by the favour and the oracle of Tʾlb Rymm 5 and by the autority and the oracle of the solar deity of Wynn. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Stone inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | al-Ḥuqqa |
| Ancient site | Dmhn |
| Geographical area | Banī al-Ḥārith |
| Country | Yemen |
| Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
| Notes | Reemployed in a door's house. |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Müller, Walter W. 1972 b: 104-111, pl. XIII fig. 40 | Müller, Walter W. 1972. Neuentdeckte Sabäische Inschriften aus al-Ḥuqqa. Neue Ephemeris für semitische Epigraphik, 1: 103-121. |
| Müller, Walter W. and Wissmann 1976: 121-122, pl. I | Müller, Walter W. and Wissmann, Hermann von 1976. Über die von einem Lavastrom bedrohten Tempel der Stadt Damhān, des heutigen al-Ḥuqqa, im antiken Gau Maʾḏin (Jemen). Anzeiger der phil.-hist. Klasse der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 113: 112-146. |
| Maraqten 2015: 119 | Maraqten, Mohammed 2015. Sacred spaces in ancient Yemen - The Awām temple - Maʾrib : A case study. Pages 107-134 in Mounir Arbach and Jérémie Schiettecatte (eds). Pre-Islamic South Arabia and its Neighbours: New Developments of Research. Proceedings of the 17th Rencontres Sabéennes held in Paris, 6–8 June 2013. (BAR International Series, 2740). Oxford: Archaeopress. [British Foundation for the Study of Arabia Monographs, 16] |