Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Measure of letters | 2.5 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
7-8 | Variant by Preissler. |
English | |
1 ʾbḥlk, she of Ḏbyn, 2 dedicated to ʾlmqh Ṯhwn, 3 Lord of ʾwm, this female statue in bronze 4 whereby she praised the might and the power 5 of ʾlmqh, because He saved and protected 6 her person from the the very cold weather she suffered in the 7 year of S¹mhkrb, son of ʾbkrb, when 8 she praised (to be saved) from the epidemic, which was 9 in that year; may ʾlmqh Ṯhwn, Lord 10 of ʾwm, continue to preserve and save 11 the person of His servant ʾbḥlk, 12 she of Ḏbyn. By ʾlmqh Ṯhwn, Lord 13 of ʾwm. |
Deposit | Mārib |
Support type | Artefact » Base » Of statue with dedicatory inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | w. 20.6, th. 17 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Maḥram Bilqīs |
Ancient site | ʾwm |
Geographical area | Maʾrib |
Country | Yemen |
Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of ʾlmqh bʿl ʾwm |
Link to site record |
Jamme 1962 a: 223 | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1962. Sabaean Inscriptions from Maḥram Bilqîs (Mârib). (Publications of the American Foundation for the Study of Man, 3). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press. |
Beeston 1972 e: 353 | Beeston, Alfred F.L. 1972. Review of Jamme, Albert W.F. 1962. Sabaean Inscriptions from Maḥram Bilqîs (Mârib). (Publications of the American Foundation for the Study of Man, 3). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 35/2: 349-353. |
ʿInān 1976: 233-234 | ʿInān, Zaid b. ʿA 1976. Taʾriḫ ḥaḍāra al-Yaman al-qadīm. Cairo. |
Preissler 1979 | Preissler H. 1979. Die mittelsabäische Weihinschrift Jamme 751. Altorientalische Forschungen, 6: 273-274. |
Jamme 1985: 225-229 | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1985. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe XIV. Washington. 2019/07/23; https://cuislandora.wrlc.org/islandora/object/cuislandora%3A203545#page/1/mode/1up. [Privately printed] |
Nebes 1995 a: 31 | Nebes, Norbert 1995. Die Konstruktionen mit /fa-/ im Altsüdarabischen. Syntaktische und epigraphische Untersuchungen. (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission, 40). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. |