YM 18351
Arbach and Audouin 2007: 83, cat. 52
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Early Sabaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Script cursus | Boustrophedon | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 4.5 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
TEXT
1 Nwḍm bn ʾbkrb ʿbd
2 S¹mhʿly kbr Ktlm
3 hqny ʾlmqh Nʿmn
4 ywm hḥdṯ byt ʾ—
5 lmqh w-ṯbtn
| 1 | The lilne is inscribed on an intermediate frame of the false-window motif, while the rest of the text is engraved on the most recessed surface, underneath the crescent with disc. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Nwḍm son of ʾbkrb, servant 2 of S¹mhʿly, kbr of Ktlm, 3 dedicated to ʾlmqh Nʿmn, 4 when he founded the temple of ʾlmqh 5 and the seat. |
| 5 | For the occurrences and the meaning of ṯbt ("seat" and probably "throne"), see Robin 2012: 64-65. |
| Robin 2012 a: 64-65 | Robin, Christian J. 2012. Matériaux pour une typologie des divinités arabiques et de leurs représentations.. Pages 7-118 in Isabelle Sachet (ed.). Dieux et déesses d'Arabie. Images et représentations. Actes de la table ronde tenue au Collège de France (Paris) les 1er et 2 octobre 2007. Paris: De Boccard. [en collaboration avec Christian Julien Robin] |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Ṣanʿāʾ, The National Museum, YM 18351 |
| Support type | Artefact » Stela » Stela with framework |
| Top | Concave |
| Material | Alabaster |
| Measures | h. 96, w. 54.5, th. 15 |
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Kharibat Saʿūd |
| Ancient site | Ktlm |
| Geographical area | wādī Raghwān |
| Country | Yemen |
| Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of ʾlmqh |
| Notes | The editors maintains Jidfir ibn Munayḫir as the site of provenance, because the stela is part of a group of pieces acquired by the GOAM as coming from illegal excavation in the site. However, we accept Schiettecatte's suggestion that some of these stelae most probably come from the nearby sites of Kharibat Saʿūd and al-Asāḥil (see Schiettecatte 2011: 49, n.25 for the argumentation). In this case, the author is kabīr of Ktlm (Kharibat Saʿūd). |
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CULTURAL NOTES
The author of the inscriptions YM 18350 and YM 18351, who is a servant of the king of S¹abaʾ S¹mhʿly, is also kabīr of the Sabaean town Kutālum in the Jawf.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Arbach and Audouin 2007: 83, cat. 52 | Arbach, Mounir and Audouin, Rémy 2007. Collection of Epigraphic and Archaeological Artifacts from al-Jawf Sites. Ṣanʿâʾ National Museum. 2. Ṣanʿāʾ: UNESCO-SFD / Ṣanʿāʾ: National Museum. [Text in English and Arabic] |