Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||||
Writing technique | Incision | ||||
Measure of letters | 1.5 | ||||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Dedicatory text - fragmentary |
The reading is based on Pirenne's photo; the stone is now much more damaged and eroded. The union of this fragment with RES 3902bis n. 149 (=NAM 2651) suggested by Jamme has been rightly rejected in Pirenne 1966: 90. |
1 | [hqny ʾlmqh ḏ-Hrn ṣlm] (RES). |
2-3 | hmdm [b-ḏ-h ḫmr w-hw]s²ʿn (RES). |
3 | [bn Frʿm Ynhb] (RES). |
4 | Beeston reads bḍʿ instead of wḍʿ. |
5-6 | b-Brrn ḏ-Ḥqh as a sanctuary and a toponym respectively (RES). Beeston suggests: ḏ-Ḥq[l Ḥrmtm. |
6-7 | [b-ḍr hs²tʾ mr]ʾy-hw (RES). |
9 | w-Ḥḍ[rmwt (RES after Margoliouth). |
10 | [w-ʾḥllm ʿbd] (RES). |
11-12 | w-ḥmdm b-ḏ]t (Beeston). |
12 | mrʾy[-hmw (RES); mrʾ[y-hw (Beeston). |
English | |
1 Tbʿkrb [... ...] 2 of bronze, whereby they praised [... ...] and fa- 3 voured their lord ʾls²rḥ Yḥḍb [... ...] 4 king of Sabaʾ, with the crushing, humiliation and overthrow of [... ...] 5 had mustered and given battle in the open country (?) of Ḥq[l Ḥrmtm ? ... ...] 6 the return of their lord in safety and [... ...] 7 their lords ʾls²rḥ Yḥḍb and his brother Yʾzl Byn, kings of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān, sons of 8 Frʿm Ynhb, king of Sabaʾ, to return [... ...] 9 they undertook and waged in the land of Ḥimyar and Ḥ[... ...] 10 ʾẓlm son of Zbnr to return in safety [... ...] 11 his [lord] ʾls²rḥ Yḥḍb and his brother Yʾzl Byn [... ...] 12 he campaigned and took the offensive with the troops who had been ordered by their (?) lords [... ...] 13 [... ...] ʾẓlm son of Zbnr enemy casualties [... ...] |
Deposit | Aden, The National Museum, NAM 1559=AM 60.1280 |
Support type | Artefact » Base » Of statue with dedicatory inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 28, w. 20.5, th. 9.5 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Maʾrib |
Ancient site | Mryb / Mrb |
Geographical area | Maʾrib |
Country | Yemen |
Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of ʾlmqh bʿl ʾwm |
Link to site record |
Pirenne 1966: 90 | Pirenne, Jacqueline 1966. Contribution à l'épigraphie sud-arabiques. Semitica, 16: 73-99. |
CIAS: II/1, 5-8, photo | Beeston, Alfred F.L., Pirenne, Jacqueline and Robin, Christian J. 1977-1986. Corpus des inscriptions et antiquités sud-arabes: Vol. I (1977): Tome 1. Inscriptions. Tome 2. Antiquités; Vol. II (1986): Le Musée d’Aden. Tome 1. Inscriptions. Tome 2. Antiquités. Louvain: Peeters. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres] |