Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Measure of letters | 3.5 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Dedicatory text - fragmentary |
1 | Ryckmans' reading of the inscription (Ryckmans 1953) begins with the fourth line of Glaser. The stone was at that time in Ǧidda Museum, broken in two pieces. The epithet of the god is not sure. The integration is proposed by Schaffer, in fact there are several inscriptions dedicated by the family S¹ḫymm to Tʾlb bʿl Kbdm. |
3 | Before Ḥrb, Schaffer suggests [s¹r]n or [b-s¹r]n, as in Ja 649, 25. |
5 | In Ryckmans reading, the line (line 2 in Ryckmans) finished after bḍʿm. The w at the beginning of the line may be the end of the verb [w-hrg]w. For the lacuna at the end of the line, Shaffer suggests q[rḥm] "wounded". |
6 | At the end of the line, Ryckmans reads Tʾlb. Ryckmans understands s¹bʾ as S¹bʾ. |
7 | S¹fln, "low land, depression", may be in this case the name of a tribe (cf. Ja 716, 7). At the end of the line, Schaffer suggests s¹[ʿd …]. |
9 | At the beginning it is possible to integrate [b-kl ʾ]brṯ. |
11 | Before s²nʾ-hmw, Schaffer integrates [ḍr-hm]w. |
English | |
1 [Lḥyʿṯt and … … dedicated] to their Patron Tʾlb [Rymm, Lord of Kbdm …] 2 [Yr]s¹m, when they undertook a military expedition and came to aid westwards of their domain, when they overcame the tribe […] 3 […] Ḥrb, west of Yrs¹m; and they destroyed and took booty (from) that detachment from […] 4 [… L]ḥyʿṯt, of the family S¹ḫym and, with him, five cavalrymen and two hundred sol[diers …] 5 [… ...] from the detachment of those Arabs, two hundred soldiers, excluding those who returned w[ounded …] 6 […] and the baggage-train, which (went) with that detachment; and Lḥyʿṯ thanked the force and the power of his Patron, [Tʾlb Rymm…] 7 […] and routed the army of S¹fln and of those of the Arabs who supported them; and because He g[ranted …] 8 […] and the integrity which pleased them; and may Tʾlb Rymm continue to grant and keep them safe […] 9 [… in all] military campaigns to which they will participate; and may Tʾlb Rymm grant them the grace and the good will of their lord […] 10 […] and may Tʾlb Rymm increase the integrity of faculties and of the strenght, and for their safety and the safety of […] 11 [… ...] and their enemy. By ʿṯtr and ʾlmqh and by their Patron Tʾlb R[ymm, Lord of Kbdm] |
Deposit | Riyāḍ, Museum, 14+14bis |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Shibām al-Ghirās / Shibām Sukhaym |
Ancient site | S²bmm |
Geographical area | Banī Ḥushaysh |
Country | Yemen |
Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of Tʾlb. |
Link to site record |
Ryckmans, Gonzague 1953: 270-273, pl. I, p. 320-26 | Ryckmans, Gonzague 1953. Inscriptions sud-arabes. Dixième série. Le Muséon, 66: 267-317. |
Jamme 1970 b: 117-118 | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1970. The pre-Islamic Inscriptions of the Riyâdh Museum. Oriens Antiquus, 9: 113-139. |
Schaffer 1972: 14-20, pl. II, 4 | Schaffer, Brigitte 1972. Sabäische Inschriften aus verschiedenen Fundorten. Sammlung Eduard Glaser. 7. (Sitzungsberichte der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 282/1). Vienna: Böhlaus in Komm. |