Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
English | |
1 Work of Lḥyʿṯt the Sabaean 2 for S²ms, goddess of 3 ʾbbhṯ, wife of 4 Tbʿm. And he offered to the goddess (his booty) 5 as the two of them had sworn, 6 interdicted and vowed. And may (the deity) grant favour to her (him?). 7 Tbʿm ibn 8 Ṣbḥm. |
"Has made [this] Lḥyʿṯt" (Jamme). | |
"and he had presented the goddess with goats because both of them were bound together by an oath and confined and had entered a round pavillon, and it [=the deity] had made him happy with prosperity Tbʿm bn Ṣbḥm" (Jamme). |
Deposit | Ṣanʿāʾ, The National Museum, YM 386 |
Support type | Artefact » Stela » Stela with scene |
Material | Alabaster |
Measures | h. 20.6, w. 10.5, th. 4 |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Tanʿim |
Ancient site | Tnʿmt |
Geographical area | Khawlān al-Ṭiyāl |
Country | Yemen |
Link to site record |
CIAS: i, 35-37, 453-454 (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] |
Jamme 1985: 250-252 | 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] |
Catalogue 2000: 276, cat. 21 | 2000. Yemen. Nel paese della Regina di Saba. Catalogo della Mostra, Palazzo Ruspoli, Fondazione Memmo, Roma 6 Aprile - 30 Giugno 2000. Milan: Skira. |
Simpson 2002: 95, cat. 99 | Simpson, St John (ed.) 2002. Queen of Sheba. Treasures from the ancient Yemen. London: British Museum Press. [Catalogue of an exhibition held at the British Museum, London] |
Antonini de Maigret 2014: 234-235, fig. 1. | Antonini de Maigret, Sabina 2014. A winged deity in southern Arabia. Pages 234-243 in Alexander V. Sedov (ed.). Arabian and Islamic studies. A collection of papers in honour of Mikhail Borishovich Piotrovskij on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Moskow. |