Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Southern Middle Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Construction text |
English | |
1 Wtrm Yrtʿ ibn Maʿāhir and ḏ-Ḫwln, son of Mʿdkrb Yh- 2 mgd and Mḫṭrn ʾs¹ʾr, qylw of Rdmn and ḏ-Ḫwln dug up, 3 built and completed the whole channel, dam (?), construction, surrounding walls (?) and 4 the equipment (or: water-channels) which bring up the waters and the flow of ḏ-ʿmdnyw for the irrigation of his valley 5 Yfdʾb; by ʿṯtr S²rqn, ʿm ḏ-Mbrqm, ʿm ḏ-D- 6 wnm Master of the hill of Wʿln, ʿtr ḏ-Nwfn, ḏt Bʿ- 7 dn and his solar deity ʿlyt, by the command of his lord Krbʾl, king 8 of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān and by the help of his two brothers Whbʾl ʿmdn and 9 Hwfʿm Yzl qylw of Rdmn and ḏ-Ḫwln, and Lḥyʿt B- 10 ryn, and by the power and the resources of Rdmn Yhrgb. |
Robin identifies ḥrt as "barrage" in this text, distinguishing it from the other meaning of "irrigation canal", also attested in the inscriptions from Radmān (sing. and plu., cf. Stein 2003 a: 74, fn. 227). | |
The verb yʿlwn is interpreted as a masc. sing. which follows the first noun nqb. However, Stein says that one might also see in it a QAT form - so far unattested - of fem. plural (2003 a: 179, fn. 137). |
Robin 1991 | Robin, Christian J. 1991. ʿAmdān Bayyin Yuhaqbid, roi de Sabaʾ et de dū-Raydān. Pages 167-205 in Études sud-arabes. Recueil offert à Jacques Ryckmans. (Publications de l'Institut Orientaliste de Louvain, 39). Louvain-La-Neuve: Université Catholique de Louvain, Institut Orientaliste. |
Stein 2003 a | 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. |
Support type | Rock inscription |
Measures | h. 145, w. 100 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Qāniya |
Ancient site | Qnʾtm |
Geographical area | Radmān |
Country | Yemen |
Found | In situ |
Archaeological context | Agricultural irrigation context |
Link to site record |
Robin 1991: 179-180, fig. 19 | Robin, Christian J. 1991. ʿAmdān Bayyin Yuhaqbid, roi de Sabaʾ et de dū-Raydān. Pages 167-205 in Études sud-arabes. Recueil offert à Jacques Ryckmans. (Publications de l'Institut Orientaliste de Louvain, 39). Louvain-La-Neuve: Université Catholique de Louvain, Institut Orientaliste. |