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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
Language Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic
Alphabet Ancient South Arabian
Script typology Monumental writing
Writing technique Incision
Chronology
Textual typology Dedicatory text - fragmentary
TEXT marker
1 [... ...](ʾ)b w-ʿbdm ʿbdy [... ...] 2 [... ...]rt hqnyy ʾlm— 3 [qh bʿl ]ʾwm ṣlmnhn l-[w— 4 fy bny((ʾḫy))-hmy W]hbm w-Whb[... ...]
Apparatus 1-2 Jamme's integration: [ʾlr]ʾb w-ʿbdm ʿbdy [bn Mn]rt. See Jamme 1963 a: 62. 4 ʾḫy: variant proposed by Jamme. See Jamme 1963 a: 62-63.
TRANSLATIONSEnglish 1 [... ...]ʾb and ʿbdm, the two servants [... ...]
2 [... ...] dedicated to ʾlmqh,
3 Lord of ʾwm, two statues for
4 [the safety of their two sons] Whbm and Whb[... ...]
OBJECT INFORMATIONDeposit Ṣanʿāʾ Support type Artefact » Base » Of statue with dedicatory inscription Material Stone Link to object record
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCEProvenance. Conjectural 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
BIBLIOGRAPHYLundin 1963 a : 36-37, fig. 1Lundin (=Loundine), Avraam G. 1963. Novye južnoarabskie nadpisi muzeja v Ṣanʿa (I). Epigrafika Vostoka , 15: 36-50. Jamme 1963 a : 62-63Jamme, Albert W.F. 1963. The al-ʿUqlah Texts . (Documentation sud-arabe, 3). Washington: Catholic University of America Press.