Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Dedicatory text - fragmentary |
Reading by Mordtmann and Mittwoch. | |
3 | ʾmr Rymm (CIH); ḏ-Mr Rymm (Mordtmann and Mittwoch); Robin (1982 a: i, 52) suggests ḏ-Mrmr. |
English | |
1 [... ...]m dedicated to their Patron 2 Tʾlb Rymm, Master of 3 [... ...] this statue, as 4 He ordered them in His oracle, in praise 5 because He protected them and saved the 6 tribe ḏ-Rʾym from the epidemic that 7 Dʾyn suffered from in the land and 8 ... during one year (?) .. 9 .. Rʾym, and in that day 10 of the killing; and may Tʾlb continue 11 to protect from that famine the 12 tribe ḏ-Rʾym, their kbr and their ṣġr 13 and all their children. |
Support type | Artefact » Base » Of statue with dedicatory inscription |
Material | Stone |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Unknown |
Ancient site | Unknown |
Geographical area | Hamdān |
Country | Yemen |
Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of Tʾlb Rymm bʿl ʾmr Rymm |
Link to site record |
Mordtmann and Mittwoch 1931: 54-57 (photo) | Mordtmann, Johannes H. and Mittwoch, Eugen 1931. Sabäische Inschriften. Rathjens-v. Wissmannsche Südarabischen-Reise. 1. Hamburg: Friederichsen, De Gruyter. |
Robin 1982 a | Robin, Christian J. 1982. Les hautes-terres du Nord-Yémen avant l'Islam. (2 vols), (Uitgaven van het Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Instituut te Istanbul, 50). Istanbul: Nederlands Historisch-Archaelogisch Instituut te Istanbul. |