Language | Ancient South Arabian » Qatabanic » Central Qatabanic | ||
Alphabet | Ancient South Arabian | ||
Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
Writing technique | Incision | ||
Chronology |
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Textual typology | Legal text | ||
Royal inscription | Yes |
English | |
1 S²hr Hll Yhnʿm, son of Ydʿʾb, king of Qataban, proclaimed the oracular decision and publicly announced from the Ḥṭbm temple of ʿm ḏ-Dwnm and from the Rṣfm temple 2 of ʾnby S²ymn and under the protection of S²ms¹ and Rbʿ S²hr for his subjectsʿmydʿ and Hfnm those of Hybr and Hwfʾl, he of Hy- 3 br ʾbn, and Rʾbʿm, he of Ḥyw, and ʿlym and Ys²rḥʿm, sons of Rbḥ, and their fellow clansmen the Priests of ʿm ḏ-Lbḫ with their womenfolk 4 and their children, on the basis of performing ritual actions and obeying (?) and submitting (?) and making offerings (?) for (the establishment of) a covenantal relationship of love and affiliation and good promise with ʿm and ʾṯr- 5 t; then let the Priests of ʿm ḏ-Lbḫ and their womenfolk and their sons and their daughters hold themselves bound in accordance with this edict and oracular deci- 6 sion; and S²hr proclaimed the oracular decision for his subjects the Priests of ʿm ḏ-Lbḫ and their womenfolk and their sons to their benefit according to this edict and oracular decision and 7 its written records; and S²hr ordered for his subjects the Priests of Lbḫ to write and to inscribe these written records in the valley of Lbḫ and in their own devoted space in the 8 temple of ʿm ḏ-Lbḫ in ḏ-Ġylm and within the gate ḏ-S³dw in Timnaʿ; its month ḏ-Tmnʿ, the last year of S²rhm he of Ygr; and let the Priests of ʿm ḏ-Lbḫ conform themselves and receive their due according to this edict and oracular decision which S²hr Ygl had written for 9 them; and the signature (was made by) the hand of S²hr. |
Mazzini 2020: 163-164 | Mazzini, Giovanni 2020. The Ancient South Arabian royal edicts from the Southern Gate of Timnaʿ and the Ǧabal Labaḫ. (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 8). |
Support type | Inscription on architectural structure » Gate |
Material | Stone |
Link to object record |
Modern site | Hajar Kuḥlān |
Ancient site | Tmnʿ |
Geographical area | Wādī Bayḥān |
Country | Yemen |
Found | In situ |
Archaeological context | Urban context: City gate ḏ-S³dw |
Link to site record |
Mazzini 2020: 163-176, 205-210, fig. 25 | Mazzini, Giovanni 2020. The Ancient South Arabian royal edicts from the Southern Gate of Timnaʿ and the Ǧabal Labaḫ. (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 8). |