Y.85.AQ/6 Eryani 46
Garbini 1988: pl. 40/b
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Early Sabaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Chronology |
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TEXT
1 Khlm
2 w-S²ʾbt w-[.]rʿ [ʾ]—
3 mh Yṯʿʾmr
4 b-ʿm mrʾ-hn
5 Dnm w-ʾr[ydy]
| 2-3 | According to Garbini, the l.2 should be integrated w-[ḏ]rʿ-[h]m(y) "and their offspring", so that this inscription has an historical significance because it demonstrates that the mukarrib paternity is adoptive and not natural. Khlm and S²ʾbt should be therefore the true parents of Yṯʿʾmr. If, on the contrary, it is assumed, following Robin, that the third word is a female name, the allusion to a mukarrib ascending disappears. |
| 4 | mrʾn-hn emended as a determinate dual by Garbini. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Khlm, 2 S²ʾbt and [.]rʿ, servants 3 of Yṯʿʾmr 4 with their lords 5 at Dnm and ʾrydy. |
| 1 | Jamme separates Khlm from the remaining lines and adds that there is no way of knowing the role played by this man in the mukarribs' hunts, if any. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Rock inscription |
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Shiʿb al-ʿAql |
| Ancient site | Dnm (?) / ʾrydy (?) |
| Geographical area | Wādī Yalā |
| Country | Yemen |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Garbini 1988: 25-26, pls 40b, 41 | Garbini, Giovanni 1988. The inscriptions of Si'b al-'Aql, Al-Gafnah and Yala/Ad-Durayb. Pages 21-40 in Alessandro de Maigret (ed.). The Sabaean archaeological complex in the Wādī Yalā (Eastern Hawlān at-Tiyāl, Yemen Arab Republic). A preliminary report. (Istituto italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente. Centro studi e scavi archeologici. Reports and memoirs, 21). Rome: IsMEO. |
| Jamme 1989: 79-80 | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1989. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe XVII. Washington. 2019/07/23; https://cuislandora.wrlc.org/islandora/object/cuislandora%3A202034#page/1/mode/1up. [Privately printed] |
| Robin 1997 a: 158 | Robin, Christian J. 1997. Sumhūriyām, fils de Karibʾīl le Grand, et le mukarribat. Pages 155-170 in Roswitha G. Stiegner (ed.). Aktualisierte Beiträge zum 1. Internationalen Symposion Südarabien, interdisziplinär an der Universität Graz mit kurzen Einführungen zu Sprach- und Kulturgeschichte. In memoriam Maria Höfner. Graz: Leykam. |