Fr-Ṣanʿāʾ 5
By kind permission of GOAM
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Minaic » Central Minaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 3 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text | ||
| Royal inscription | Yes |
GENERAL NOTES
| The catalogue of the museum wrongly reports a provenance of this inscription from Mārib. |
TEXT
1 Ḏmrkrb Rym bn[ ʾ]—
2 ls¹mʿ mlk Kmnhw
3 w-s²ʿb-s¹ Kmnhw ntḫy
4 w-ntḏr k-ḏ-Mdhww b-
5 hn l-(y)s¹twffy b-ġy—
6 (l)-(s¹)m w-b-hn yġw b-s¹—
7 wl yṯʿd-s¹ mṯl w-b-
8 hn l-ykyl ḏ-krb b-y—
9 wmh s¹dn b-ywm ṯmr
10 w-b-hn l-yftḥ ḏ-ymt—
11 ḫḍ b-mwfrn f-ḥmy—
12 n bn ʾrḫ mṯl-s¹n
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Ḏmrkrb Rym, son of 2 ʾls¹mʿ, king of Kmnhw, 3 and his commune of Kmnhw confessed 4 and did penance to ḏ-Mdhww, be- 5 cause they had to be surely protected by means of 6 their water-course and because they misdirected the 7 stream, which the document allotted (for them), and be- 8 cause they had to measure what they offered on the 9 day of performing service (for the god), on the day of (collecting) crops, 10 and because they had to give judgement on what was appro- 11 priated among the cultivated lands; and may the defence 12 be assured against the (corresponding) provision of the document on them (i.e. on the above mentioned cultivated lands). |
| Frantsouzoff 2010: 163 | Frantsouzoff, Serguei A. 2010. Once more on the interpretation of mṯl in Epigraphic South Arabian (a new expiatory inscription on irrigation from Kamna). Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 40: 161-170. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Ṣanʿāʾ, Military Museum, MṢM 148 |
| Support type | Artefact » Slab |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 55, w. 27, th. 12 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Kamna |
| Ancient site | Kmnhw |
| Geographical area | Jawf - Wādī Madhab |
| Country | Yemen |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Frantsouzoff 2010: 161-170, figs 1-4 | Frantsouzoff, Serguei A. 2010. Once more on the interpretation of mṯl in Epigraphic South Arabian (a new expiatory inscription on irrigation from Kamna). Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 40: 161-170. |