Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic |
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian |
Script typology | Monumental writing |
Writing technique | Incision |
Measure of letters | 3.1 |
Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
1 | [..](ys²f): autoptic reading by Ch. Robin. |
6 | Note the feminine plural bnt, even if referred to three daughters and a son. |
English | |
1 Dhlnʿṯt, ʾyys²f and [..]ys²f 2 and their daughter S²fnns¹r, of the family Gr- 3 hmm, servants of Rs²yn, dedicated to ʾlmqhw Ṯhwn, 4 Lord of ʾwm, a male statue and three female statues for their 5 safety and the safety of their children S²fnns¹r, 6 Hḥyʿṯt, Ḥmnns¹r and Rfʾnṯhw, daughters of the family 7 Grhmm; may ʾlmqhw grant them prosperity 8 and good luck, and may He deliver them from any evil 9 and the malice of any enemy. By ʿṯtr, by ʾlmqh 10 and by ḏt Ḥmym and by ḏt Bʿdnm. |
Deposit | Bayḥān, Museum, MuB 513 |
Support type | Artefact » Base » Of statue with dedicatory inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 36, w. 41 |
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: 174-175 | al-Iryānī, Muṭahhar 1973. Fī taʾriḫ al-Yaman. Cairo. |
Ryckmans, Jacques 1974 a: 493-499 | Ryckmans, Jacques 1974. Himyaritica 4. Le Muséon, 87: 493-521. |
Ryckmans, Jacques 1975 a: 61-62 | Ryckmans, Jacques 1975. Ḥimyaritica 5. Le Muséon, 88: 199-219. |
ʿInān 1976: 402-403 | ʿInān, Zaid b. ʿA 1976. Taʾriḫ ḥaḍāra al-Yaman al-qadīm. Cairo. |
al-Iryānī 1990: 209-210 | al-Iryānī, Muṭahhar 1990. Fī-taʾrīḫ al-Yaman. Nuquš musnadiya wa-taʿliqāt. Ṣanʿāʾ: Markaz al-dirāsāt wa-l-buḥūṯ al-Yamanī. |
Arbach 1994: 12-14, pls 2/1, 3/1 | Arbach, Mounir 1994. Inscriptions sudarabiques. Raydān, 6: 5-16. |
Stein 2003 a: 131-132 | Stein, Peter 2003. Untersuchungen zur Phonologie und Morphologie des Sabäischen. (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 3). Rahden: Marie Leidorf GmbH / Westf.: Marie Leidorf GmbH. |