DJE 10 Gr 26
Grjaznevič 1978: fig. 42
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- Grjaznevič 1978: fig. 42
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| 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 | Construction text - fragmentary |
GENERAL NOTES
| Stein dates the text to the 1st-2nd century AD on the basis of palaeography. |
TEXT
1 Ḫlws³(l) ḏt (L)ʿwn (bt) [...]d[.] ʿ(s¹)ʾt m(q)[brtn ... ... w-]
2 rṯdt hyt mqbrtn ʿṯtr w-ʾlmqhw w-Tʾ(l)[b ... ... ʾr]—
3 ḍn w-wḍʿt s¹myn l-ytlwnn w-lṣq kl ʾns¹ yʾḫ[... ...]—
4 rn f-l (y)lṣ(q)n(n) w-ʿyr kl ʾns¹ yḫṭʾn b-ḏt mqb[rtn]
| 2-3 | [... ... ʾr]ḍn w-wḍʿt (Müller). Stein suggests the comparison with Mon.script.sab 79/4: [ʾlʾlt nṭs²t ʾr]ḍn w-wḍʿt s¹myn. |
| 3 | At the end of the line, Stein's restoration: yʾḫ[rn ... ...]; yʿḫ[ḏn ... ...] (Müller); yʿḫr [... ...] (Lundin, but the letter r is not visible). |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Ḫlws³l, of the family Lʿwt, daughter of [...], built the tomb [... ...] 2 committed this tomb to the protection of ʿṯtr and ʾlmqh and Tʾlb [... ...] 3 the Land and the Sky to pursue and hunt down anyone who would remove [... ...] 4 and to hunt down and disgrace anyone who would commit offence against this tomb. |
| German | |
1 Ḫlws³l, die Angeheiratete der (Sippe) Laʿwān, die Tochter des ..., hat die Grab[stätte ...] angelegt [...]. 2 Sie hat jene Grabstätte in den Schutz von ʿṯtr, ʾlmqhw, Tʾ[lb (und ...)] gestellt. [Die Götter, welche die Er]de [verbreitet] 3 und der Himmel hervorgebracht hat, mögen jeden Menschen verfolgen und sich an ihn hängen, der (etwas) ent[fernt ... Und was ... betrifft], 4 so mögen sie (sc. die Götter) sich anhängen und Schande bringen über jeden Menschen, der sich an dieser Grab[stätte] versündigt [...]. |
| 2-3 | Müller: "... die Er]de, und sie erniedrigte den Himmel, damit sie verfolgen und sich hängen an jedermann ...", supposing the existence of a third noun in the lacuna in order to justify the plural ytlwnn. Lundin (in Russian): "and she appealed to heaven". A comment on these translation is given by Beeston. According to him, the subject of the verb ytlwnn are the three deities and he suggests that wḍʿt may be a plural noun, as an epithet of the gods: "[creators of] earth and founders of heaven". |
| Müller, Walter W. 1972 a: 81-83 | Müller, Walter W. 1972. Epigraphische Nachlese aus Ḥāz. Neue Ephemeris für semitische Epigraphik, 1: 75-85. |
| Grjaznevič 1978: 33 | Grjaznevič, Petr A. 1978. Materiali ekspedicii P.A. Grjaznevičia 1966-1967 gg. Južnaja Aravija. Pamjiatniki Drevnej Istorii i Kultury. 1. Moscow: Glavnaja redakzija vostočnoj literatury. |
| Beeston 1979 b: 95 | Beeston, Alfred F.L. 1979. Studies in Sabaic Lexicography I. Raydān, 2: 89-100. |
| Stein 2011 a: 397 | Stein, Peter 2011. Altsüdarabische Grabinschriften. Pages 387-402 in Bernd Janowski, Daniel Schwemer and Daniel Arpagaus (eds). Grab-, Sarg-, Bau- und Votivinschriften. Texte aus der Umwelt des Alten Testaments. Neue Folge. 6. Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Inscription on architectural structure |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 50, w. 150 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Ḥāz |
| Ancient site | Ḥzym |
| Geographical area | Hamdān |
| Country | Yemen |
| Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
| Archaeological context | Funerary context: Tomb |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Müller, Walter W. 1972 a: 81-84, fig. 32 | Müller, Walter W. 1972. Epigraphische Nachlese aus Ḥāz. Neue Ephemeris für semitische Epigraphik, 1: 75-85. |
| Grjaznevič 1978: 32-33, fig. 42 | Grjaznevič, Petr A. 1978. Materiali ekspedicii P.A. Grjaznevičia 1966-1967 gg. Južnaja Aravija. Pamjiatniki Drevnej Istorii i Kultury. 1. Moscow: Glavnaja redakzija vostočnoj literatury. |
| Stein 2011 a: 397 | Stein, Peter 2011. Altsüdarabische Grabinschriften. Pages 387-402 in Bernd Janowski, Daniel Schwemer and Daniel Arpagaus (eds). Grab-, Sarg-, Bau- und Votivinschriften. Texte aus der Umwelt des Alten Testaments. Neue Folge. 6. Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus. |
| Rijziger 2018: 159-160, fig. 52 | Rijziger, Sarah 2018. Sabaean inscriptions from Ḥāz, Yemen. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 29/2: 135-171. 2019/10/02; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/aae.12111. |