Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Measure of letters | 3 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Legal text - fragmentary |
Some elements in the text recall Ry 522. |
2 | mḥgrt-hmw w-mrʿy-hmw in CIH 204, 3; CIH 546, 11 (). |
3 | The first ligible lettre, m, has to be the end of a proper name. Ḏhbn is known as sanctuary of the sun-goddess in Ḥanān (RES 3943, 4). |
English | |
1 [… …] 2 […] canal and reserved land and pastures [… …] which they acquired [… …] 3 [….] and his sons, the family Btʿ, at the sanctuary Ḏhbn, as he violently overthrew (?) and seized all that house (temple ?) 4 [… ] family Btʿ and S¹ʿdtʾlb and Mḫṭrn and all his brothers and their sons and their descendants, the family B- 5 [tʿ … Wh]bʾl Yḥz, king of Sbʾ, for his servants, the family Btʿ; and according to the inscription which Ns²ʾ[k]rb, son of ... dedicated 6 [… …]; may He grant protection, keep fair, upright, healthy and safe His servants S¹ʿd- 7 [tʾlb …] all men, grand and small, [who (are) f]ar or near, so that the concessionary document was extended (?), which they impose to 8 [… …] |
1 | Solá Solé connected ms¹kb to Arabic sakaba "to pour". |
6 | G. Ryckmans translates the Minaic ys¹brr w-s¹mtʿ (RES 3696, 4) as "verser et consacrer". In Sabaic, the IVth form of mtʿ means "to save, to deliver"; hbrr may have a similar meaning, "to keep fair"; for hṣḥḥn cf. the Arabic ṣaḥḥa, "health". |
7 | Solá Solé understands kḏnmy as k-ḏ-nmy, according to the Arabic namaya "enlarge" (see RES 3306, 4 = Gl 282; Solá Solé 1964: 46). The root NMY is not present in the SD. |
Solá Solé 1964: 43-46 | 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 | Stone inscription |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Jabal Riyām |
Ancient site | Trʿt |
Geographical area | Arḥab |
Country | Yemen |
Link to site record |
Ryckmans, Gonzague 1954: 108 | Ryckmans, Gonzague 1954. Inscriptions sud-arabes. Onzième série. Le Muséon, 67: 99-119. |
Solá Solé 1964: 43-46, pl. XIV | 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. |
Nebes 1995 a: 64 (183) | Nebes, Norbert 1995. Die Konstruktionen mit /fa-/ im Altsüdarabischen. Syntaktische und epigraphische Untersuchungen. (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission, 40). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. |