Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Measure of letters | 2.2 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
English | |
1 ʿbd Khlh and Ḥbybm, the two mounted 2 troop commanders, and their son 3 ʿmrʾl dedicated to their Lord ʾlmqh 4 Ṯhwn, Lord of ʾwm, the two statues 5 in bronze as he promised Him, and in praise 6 because He protect them and because ʾlmqh 7 may continue to protect His vassals 8 ʿbd Khlh and Ḥbybm and their son 9 ʿmrʾl, and may He help them and save 10 them from the evil, the harm 11 and the malice of any enemy, by ʾlmqh Ṯhwn, Lord 12 of ʾwm. |
Deposit | Aden, The National Museum, NAM 513=AM 851 |
Support type | Artefact » Base » Of statue with dedicatory inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 28.3, w. 21, th. 9.9 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Maḥram Bilqīs |
Ancient site | ʾwm |
Geographical area | Maʾrib |
Country | Yemen |
Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of ʾlmqh Ṯhwn bʿl ʾwm |
Link to site record |
Jamme 1962 a: 199-200, pl. 30 | 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. |
Doe and Jamme 1968: 2, 6, pl. II | Doe, D. Brian and Jamme, Albert W.F. 1968. New Sabaean Inscriptions from South Arabia. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 100/1: 2-28. |
CIAS: ii, 105-107, photo | Beeston, Alfred F.L., Pirenne, Jacqueline and Robin, Christian J. 1977-1986. Corpus des inscriptions et antiquités sud-arabes: Vol. I (1977): Tome 1. Inscriptions. Tome 2. Antiquités; Vol. II (1986): Le Musée d’Aden. Tome 1. Inscriptions. Tome 2. Antiquités. Louvain: Peeters. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres] |