Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Measure of letters | 3.5 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
2 | The letters -rn are probably the end of the name Fʿrn, which is attested in l. 8. |
7 | The restitution of the name Kḫbr at the end of the line is plausible but not sure, so as it is in ll. 1 and 5, both damaged. |
8 | The restitution of w-rḍw at the end of the line is almost certain. |
10 | The shape of /ḍ/, open at the bottom like a /b/, is unusual (see also CIH 351, 11), but the reading is undoubtful, as the expression w-l wḍʿ ḍr-hmw is well known. |
English | |
1 Kḫbr and Yfrʿ Yr[… and Fʿ]- 2 rn dedicated to their Patron [Tʾlb] 3 Rymm, Lord of Trʿt, this sta[tue as] 4 He commanded in His oracle [and in praise 5 because] He saved his servants Kḫ[br ….] 6 from the accident which had befallen them [... ...] 7 and may He grant their servants K[ḫbr] 8 and Fʿrn with health and safety [and with the favour] 9 of their lords, the family Hmdn, and their 10 [tribe] Ḥs²dm; and may He humiliate their en[e- 11 my and] those who [are hateful]. By Tʾlb R[ymm]. |
Solá Solé 1964: 18-19 | Solá Solé, Josep M. 1964. Inschriften aus Riyām. Sammlung Eduard Glaser. 4. (Sitzungsberichte der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 243/4). Vienna: Böhlaus. |
Support type | Artefact » Base » Of statue with dedicatory inscription |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Jabal Riyām |
Ancient site | Trʿt |
Geographical area | Arḥab |
Country | Yemen |
Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of Tʾlb Rymm |
Link to site record |
Solá Solé 1964: 18-19, pl. V/2 | Solá Solé, Josep M. 1964. Inschriften aus Riyām. Sammlung Eduard Glaser. 4. (Sitzungsberichte der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 243/4). Vienna: Böhlaus. |