Ja 520 Lu 10
Jamme 1955 e: 129, pl. II
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Late Sabaic | ||
| Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Writing technique | Incision | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Construction text - fragmentary | ||
| Royal inscription | Yes |
GENERAL NOTES
| The inscription might be in relief. The text has to be dated back to 400-420 AD (cf. Robin and Rijziger 2018: 480) |
TEXT
1 [... ... ʾbkrb ʾ]s¹ʿd (w)-[... ...]
2 w-Ḥgr ʾyfʿ ʾm[lk ... ... m]—
3 lk S¹bʾ w-ḏ-Ry[dn w-Ḥḍrmwt w-Ymnt ... ...]
4 [.]hr bn mwṯrn ʿ[dy ... ...]
5 [.. ](b)ḏt ʾ[m]r-hmw [... ...]
| 3 | for Ymnt see Robin 2013: 131-133. |
| 4 | The editors integrate ʿ[dy mrymn. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Stone inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Measures | h. 30, w. 45 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Qaryat al-Qābil |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | Wādī Ḍahr |
| Country | Yemen |
| Notes | In 1955, when Jamme saw the inscription, it was placed in the garden of imām's house. |
| Link to site record |
CULTURAL NOTES
This is the oldest attestation of the theonym Rḥmnn (cf. Robin and Rijziger 2018: 480).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Jamme 1955 e: 117-118, pl. II | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1955. Inscriptions sud-arabes de la collection Ettore Rossi. Rivista degli Studi Orientali, 30: 103-130. |
| Lundin 1963 a: 43-45 | Lundin (=Loundine), Avraam G. 1963. Novye južnoarabskie nadpisi muzeja v Ṣanʿa (I). Epigrafika Vostoka, 15: 36-50. |
| Gajda 1997: 19-20 | Gajda, Iwona 1997. Ḥimyar gagné par le monothéisme (IVe-VIe siècle de l'ère chrétienne). Ambitions et ruine d'un royaume de l'Arabie méridionale antique. (Université d'Aix-en-Provence). |
| Robin 2013 | Robin, Christian J. 2013. À propos de Ymnt et Ymn: « nord » et « sud », « droite » et « gauche », dans les inscriptions de l'Arabie antique. Pages 119-140 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. |
| Robin and Rijziger 2018: 480 | Robin, Christian J. and Rijziger, Sarah 2018. "The Owner of the Sky, God of Israel" in a new Jewish Ḥimyaritic inscription dating from the fifth century CE. Der Islam, 95/2: 271-290. 2019/10/08; https://doi.org/10.1515/islam-2018-0050. |