Language | Ancient South Arabian » Qatabanic » Central Qatabanic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
1 | Maraqten integrates at the end of the line: [ʾdm]. |
2 | If the integration is right, we would have for the first time in Qatabanic the family's name: Ngrn. |
English | |
1 Hwfʿm, Ys²rḥʿm and ʾlʿm, sons of Hwfʾl [... ...] 2 of the family Ngrn, priests of Ḥrb ḏ-Wʿrm. Hwfʿm and Ys²rḥʾl 3 dedicated to ʿm ḏ-Rymtm and to ḏt Rḥbn the statue of bronze, in respect of what they 4 asked them (the two divinities) for. They committed to ʿm and to ḏt Rḥbn their faculties, 5 their children and their goods; by ʿṯtr, by ʿm, by ʾnby, 6 by ʿm ḏ-S²qr, by Ḥwkm Nbṭ, by ḏt Ṣntm, 7 by ḏt Ẓhrn, by ḏt Rḥbn, by ḏt Ḥmym and by their lord 8 Ydʿʾb Ġyln, son of Frʿkrb, king of Qatabān and by 9 [... ...] |
Support type | Artefact » Base » Of statue with dedicatory inscription |
Material | Stone |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Ḥinū az-Zurayr |
Ancient site | Hrbt |
Geographical area | Wādī Ḥarīb |
Country | Yemen |
Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of Ḥrb ḏ-Wʿrm |
Link to site record |
Maraqten 2013: 77-79, fig. 2 | Maraqten, Mohammed 2013. Two Qatabanian inscriptions from Ḥinū az-Zurayr. Pages 73-82 in Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet, Catherine Fauveaud and Iwona Gajda (eds). Entre Carthage et l’Arabie heureuse. Mélanges offerts à François Bron. (Orient & Méditerranée, 12). Paris: de Boccard. |