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 - fragmentary |
Lundin 1966 a: 82 edited the lines 6-9 of the text. |
5 | At the end of the line Jamme integrates: ḥlmm "dreams". |
7 | ṯkmtn is a hypothetical integration . |
9 | At the presence of an epithet of ʾlmqh before hwfyn is probable. |
10-11 | After l-bdd Jamme integrates an improbable ḥyw-hw "for the period of his life"; in other contexts we find the noun "years"; "for the period of years" i.e. "forever". |
20-21 | The restoration of the formula f-l-ys²m[n wfy grb ʿbd-hw] is based on Nebes 1995 a: 29. |
21-22 | Jamme integrates: bn kl ʾbyt. |
English | |
1 [... ...] 2 S¹ḥr, of the family S¹ḥr, and his two sons [... ...] 3 and Whbʾwm, descendants of the family S¹ḥr [dedicated to ʾlmqh] 4 Ṯhwn, Lord of ʾwm this statue [in praise because] 5 ʾlmqh protected His servant Brlm [... ...] 6 forty-eight years from [the year] 7 of ʾbkrb, son of Wddʾl, of the family Fḍḥm, [the first year] 8 until the year of Mʿdkrb, son of ʾbkrb, son of 9 S²rs¹hmw and may ʾlmqh [Ṯhwn] continue 10 to protect His servant Brlm forever (?). 11 May ʾlmqh grant them [all] 12 the favours he sought and implore from Him [and may] 13 ʾlmqh, Lord of ʾwm, continue to provide safety for 14 [His servant] Brlm in all favours he will continue [to seek] 15 and implore from Him. May He grant [them] 16 [well-being and] prosperity and good luck [and the goodwill] 17 [and the favour] of their two lords S¹ʿds²ms¹m [ʾs¹rʾ] 18 [and his son] Mrṯdm Yhḥmd, the two kings of [Sabaʾ] 19 [and ḏu-Raydān] the two descendants of ʾls²rḥ Yḥḍb, [king of] 20 [Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān]. And ʾlmqh, may He grant [the safety] 21 [of the person of His servant] Brlm and of their sons of the family [S¹ḥr] 22 [... ...] house of the family S¹ḥr. By ʿṯtr and [Hwbs¹ and] 23 by ʾlmqh, Lord of ʾwm and Ḥrwnm, and by 24 [ḏt-Ḥmym] and by ḏt-Bʿdnm and by ʿṯtr [S²rqn]. |
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 |
Found | In situ |
Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of ʾlmqh Ṯhwn bʿl ʾwm |
Link to site record |
Lundin 1966 a: 82 | Lundin (=Loundine), Avraam G. 1966. Dopolnenie k spisku sabeiskih eponimov. Vestnik Drevnej Istorii, 3: 82-91. |
Jamme 1976: 19-29, pl. 20 | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1976. Carnegie Museum 1974-75 Yemen Expedition. (Special Publication, 2). Pittsburgh: Carnegie Museum of Natural History. |
Robin 1994 d: 236-237, 239, 242-243, 248, fig. 2 | Robin, Christian J. 1994. À propos d'une nouvelle inscription du règne de Shaʿrum Awtar, un réexamen de l'éponymat sabéen à l'époque des rois de Sabaʾ et de dhū-Raydān. Pages 230-249 in Norbert Nebes. Arabia Felix. Beiträge zur Sprache und Kultur des vorislamischen Arabien. Festschrift Walter W. Müller zum 60. Geburtstag. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. |
Nebes 1995 a: 29 | Nebes, Norbert 1995. Die Konstruktionen mit /fa-/ im Altsüdarabischen. Syntaktische und epigraphische Untersuchungen. (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission, 40). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. |