| 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 | Dedicatory text |
| Iryani transcribed the text in a paragraph arrangement that did not respect the original disposition of the lines. |
| 1 | l-ṯmrm kwn (Iryānī in the South Arabian transcription). ʾlmqh (ʿInān). Some problems in ʿInān's transcription in South Arabian characters. The Arabic transcription omits the central part of the line. |
| 2 | Iryānī transcription has been followed. ʾlmqh bʿl ʾwm hwfn-hmw; w-l-hwfy-hmw w-l-rṯd-hmw w-ḥẓy w-rḍw mrʾy-hmw; mlky S¹bʾ (ʿInān). |
| English | |
1 S²rḥʾl Yzʾn of the family Tzʾd dedicated to ʾlmqhw Ṯhwn, Lord of ʾwm the statue as He had ordered him in His oracle and in addition to it a votive object (a bowl?) by which his servant S²rḥʾl, of the family Tzʾd, sought favour from Him for the crops in his land, in the first year of Tbʿkrb son of Mʿdkrb of the family Ḥzfrm, 2 and may ʾlmqhw, Lord of ʾwm, continue to satisfy them in all the favours he will seek from Him and for their safety and (the safety of) their children and the goodwill and the satisfaction of the their lords ʿlhn Nhfn and his son S²ʿrm ʾwtr the kings of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān, sons of Yrm ʾymn king of Sabaʾ, and may He grant to them healthy male children. By ʾlmqhw, Lord of ʾwm. |
| 1 | The translation "bowl" for kbtm is proposed by Ryckmans 1974: 244. |
| Ryckmans, Jacques 1974: 244 | Ryckmans, Jacques 1974. Himyaritica 3. Le Muséon, 87: 237-263. |
| Deposit | Ṣanʿāʾ, al-Kuhālī collection (Private collection) |
| Support type | Artefact » Base » Of statue with dedicatory inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Link to object record |
| Modern site | Maḥram Bilqīs |
| Ancient site | ʾwm |
| Geographical area | Maʾrib |
| Country | Yemen |
| Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of ʾlmqhw Ṯhwn bʿl ʾwm |
| Link to site record |
| al-Iryānī 1973: 60-61 | al-Iryānī, Muṭahhar 1973. Fī taʾriḫ al-Yaman. Cairo. |
| ʿInān 1976: 210-211 | ʿInān, Zaid b. ʿA 1976. Taʾriḫ ḥaḍāra al-Yaman al-qadīm. Cairo. |
| al-Iryānī 1990: 93-95 | al-Iryānī, Muṭahhar 1990. Fī-taʾrīḫ al-Yaman. Nuquš musnadiya wa-taʿliqāt. Ṣanʿāʾ: Markaz al-dirāsāt wa-l-buḥūṯ al-Yamanī. |