Language | Ancient South Arabian » Qatabanic » Central Qatabanic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Measure of letters | 5 | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
The missing portion of text had to be engraved on another stone. Pirenne: "ces dédicaces étaient fixées les unes à côté des autres sur le mur du temple". |
English | |
1 ʾlqdm and S²hzn sons of[... ...] 2 dedicated to God of both of them ʾṯrt[... ... the] 3 town of Hrbt two votive items[... ...] 4 may She help ʾlqdm and S²h[zn ... ...] 5 in what has been favourable and in what [... ... ʾ]- 6 lqdm and S²hzn ʾṯrt [... ...] 7 and the material resources of both of them and all [... ...] 8 against everyone who may damage it from its 9 place. |
3 | Pirenne considered s²mry to be a divine epithet, but s²mry is assuredly the dedicated object. s²mry is also attested in CIAS 47.11/o 1, 3. I thoght that it was a dual noun (see Sima 2000: 303 and n. 55); there are two gods in CIAS 47.11/o 1 to whom the dedication is being made. According Robin (Calvet and Robin 1997: 188) in QAT a dual -y is uncommon, he therefore hypothezied that s²mry is a form fʿly. But in QAT we find other examples of endings of dual in -y after the dedication verbs, so I prefer to analyze s²mry as a dual noun. |
Calvet and Robin 1997 | Calvet, Yves and Robin, Christian J. 1997. Arabie heureuse. Arabie déserte. Les antiquités arabiques du Musée du Louvre. Avec la collaboration de Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet and Marielle Pic. Paris: Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux. |
Sima 2000 | Sima, Alexander 2000. Tiere, Pflanzen, Steine und Metalle in den altsüdarabischen Inschriften. Eine lexikalische und realienkundliche Untersuchung. (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur. Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission, 46). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. |
Deposit | London, The British Museum, BM 132333=1958,0712.1 |
Support type | Artefact » Slab |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 57, w. 29.5, th. 4 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Ḥinū az-Zurayr |
Ancient site | Hrbt |
Geographical area | Wādī Ḥarīb |
Country | Yemen |
Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of ʾṯrt |
Notes | Despite in the text there is not the epithet of the goddess, the inscription was probably placed in the sanctuary of ʾṯrt ḏt Ys¹l. |
Link to site record |
Honeyman 1962: 39-42, pl. 5 | Honeyman, Alexander M. 1962. Ephigraphic South Arabian Antiquities. Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 21: 38-43. |
Pirenne 1966: 73-80 | Pirenne, Jacqueline 1966. Contribution à l'épigraphie sud-arabiques. Semitica, 16: 73-99. |