Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Relief | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
The text is perfectly parallel to Fa 75 and 75 bis. |
English | |
1 [Rbm ʾḫṭr and Hʿn ʾs¹ʿd, members of (the clans)] Gdnm and (ḏ)-Ḥbtlm and Zbnr, the two sons of Brqm 2 Yʿrr, descendant of Ḥbtlm and Zbnr,] have dedicated to their tutelary deity Hrn two horses and their two riders 3 [from their booty from the city S²bw]t as they accompanied their lord S²ʿrm ʾwtr, king 4 [of S¹bʾ and ḏ-Rydn, son of ʿlhn Nh]fn, king of S¹bʾ, when they waged war on Ḥḍrmt. |
Rijziger 2017 b: 242 | Rijziger, Sarah 2017. Two new inscriptions mentioning Rabbum ʾAkhṭar, a military commander of the Sabaean king in the first half of the third century AD. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 28/2: 238-245. 2019/10/19; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/16000471/2017/28/2. |
Support type | Artefact » Base » Of statue with dedicatory inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 26, w. 93, th. 18 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Maʾrib |
Ancient site | Mryb / Mrb |
Geographical area | Maʾrib |
Country | Yemen |
Found | Reemployed. In ancient times |
Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of Hrn |
Notes | This inscription is walled in an old structure (cf. Kitchen 2000: 419). |
Link to site record |
Rijziger 2017 b: 242 | Rijziger, Sarah 2017. Two new inscriptions mentioning Rabbum ʾAkhṭar, a military commander of the Sabaean king in the first half of the third century AD. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 28/2: 238-245. 2019/10/19; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/16000471/2017/28/2. |
Schmidt 1987: pl. 16/d | Schmidt, Jürgen 1987. Antiken aus dem Stadtgebiet von Mārib. Archäologische Berichte aus dem Yemen, 4: 131-142. |
Avanzini 2016 | Avanzini, Alessandra. By Land and by Sea. A history of South Arabia before Islam recounted from inscriptions. (Arabia Antica, 10). Roma: «L'Erma» di Bretschneider. |