CSAI

Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions

DASI

Fa 75


Fakhry 1952: i, fig. 56
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic
AlphabetAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Writing techniqueRelief
Chronology
PeriodD
Textual typologyDedicatory text

TEXT


   1  Rbm ʾḫṭr w-Hʿn ʾs¹ʿd bn(y) (G)dnm w-[... ... ...]—
   2  [.]m Yʿrr bn Ḥbtlm w-Zbnr hqnyw mḍḥ-h[mw ... ...]—
   3  y bn mlt-hmw bn hgrn S²bwt b-kn s²[wʿw mrʾ-hmw S²ʿrm ʾwtr m]—
   4  [l]k S¹bʾ w-ḏ-Rydn bn ʿlhn Nhfn mlk [S¹bʾ ... ...]

Apparatus
1G. Ryckmans read [K]brm corrected in Brm by Salami 2011: 54.

TRANSLATIONS

CSAI
English

   1  Krbm ʾḫṭr and Hʿn ʾs¹ʿd, of the family Gdnm, and [... ... ...]m
   2  Yʿrr, of the families Ḥbtlm and Zbnr, dedicated to their tutelary deity [... ...]
   3  from their booty from the city of S²bwt, when [they followed their lord S²ʿrm ʾwtr],
   4  king of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān, son of ʿlhn Nhfn, king of Sabaʾ [... ...].

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeStone inscription
MaterialStone
Measuresh. 25, w. 83
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Provenance
Modern siteMaʾrib
Ancient siteMryb / Mrb
Geographical areaMaʾrib
CountryYemen
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Fakhry 1952: i, 108, n. 123, fig. 56Fakhry, Ahmed 1952. An archaeological Journey to Yemen (March-May 1947). (3 vols), Cairo: Government Press.
Ryckmans, Gonzague 1952: ii, 49-50Ryckmans, Gonzague 1952. Epigraphical texts. Ahmed Fakhry, An archaeological Journey to Yemen (March-May 1947). ii. Cairo: Government Press.
al-Salami 2011: 54al-Salami, Mohammed Ali 2011. Sabäische Inschriften aus dem Ḫawlān. (Jenaer Beiträge zum Vorderen Orient, 7). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.
Rijziger 2017 b: 238-239, 243Rijziger, 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.