Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Measure of letters | 4.2 (l.1) | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Legal text |
5 | "In all probability one more deity was mentioned in this lacuna. The name of ʿṯtr S²rqn, for instance, corresponds well to its size" (Frantsouzoff 2009: 158). |
7 | The editor reads: (b-s³ḫnn). |
11 | yʿnn-hm(w): "This verbal form in the imperfect has the same meaning as yh(ʿ)nn-hmw in l. 8. The omission of the h can be explained either by the assimilation of this consonant or simply as a mistake" (Frantsouzoff 2009: 158). |
English | |
1 Declaration (on behalf) of ʾlhb Zʿmn and all their brothers 2 and their sons, clients of the family S¹ḫmm: 3 indeed they sought favour from Tʾlb, Lord 4 of Qdmn, as the god of Ḫs¹ʾm [and...] and T'lb commanded them 5 in His oracular response 6 to sacrifice Him a victim and to repeat 7 in [...] in the month of Ṣrb regularly, once 8 a year, on His behalf; may He protect them from 9 everyone who did damage to their land and their house 10 Rbn, from (any) loss and insect pests. And Tʾ- 11 lb, He promised to His devotees to protect them 12 from any mischievous person, from the establishment of this do- 13 cument onwards. And this document was (written) 14 in the month of Dṯʿ in the year of Rb, son of Yfs², 15 of the family Yhs³ḥm. |
7-8 | The editor translates: "and may He reward them with big (beasts)". At the beginning of l. 8 he reads: s³ḫnn and he notes: "this word, attested here for the first time in Epigraphic South Arabian languages, can be compared with ṯaḫīn (pl. ṯiḫān) 'thick, big, coarse, or gross" in classical Arabic (Lane 1863-1893: 333)" (Frantsouzoff 2009: 158). |
Frantsouzoff 2009 a: 157-158 | Frantsouzoff, Serguei A. 2009. The status of sacred pastures according to Sabaic inscriptions. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 39: 155-162. |
Support type | Stone inscription |
Material | Stone |
Measures | h. 112, w. 39 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Quṭra |
Ancient site | Mṭrtm |
Geographical area | Nihm |
Country | Yemen |
Link to site record |
Frantsouzoff 2009 a: 155-161, fig. 1 | Frantsouzoff, Serguei A. 2009. The status of sacred pastures according to Sabaic inscriptions. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 39: 155-162. |
Frantsouzoff 2016: 138-141, pl. 54 a-c | Frantsouzoff, Serguei A. 2016. Nihm. Fasc. A: Les documents. Fasc. B: Les planches. With contribution by Christian J. Robin. Inventaire des inscriptions sudarabiques. 8. Paris: De Boccard. [Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres; Collège de France, Laboratoire des Études Sémitiques anciennes; Académie des sciences de Russie Institut des manuscrits orientaux] |