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Sanaa-Garbini 6 Ga 92(Ja)


Garbini 1976: pl. 4

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic
ScriptAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Text directionRight-to-left
Text appearanceRecessed
Execution techniqueIncision
Chronology
PeriodC. Conjectural
Textual typologyDedicatory text

GENERAL NOTES

The approximations in the writing, with various mistakes and amendments, some dialectal and stylitic peculiarities suggest a peripheral provenance.

TEXT

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   1  ʾs³lḥ w-Ḫmrnm mqtwy [...]
   2  n ʿzzʾl hqnyw w-hrṯdn bn-
   3  hmy ʿbdhyn Bʿl Ḥds¹m ḥ—
   4  mn ṣlmn ḏ-ḏhbn b-ḏt wqmw
   5  w-k-hʿn-hw bn mrḍ b-ṣġr-hw
   6  w-rʾ k-hʿn-<h>w Bʿl Ḥds¹m w-l-
   7  wzʾ hyn-hw ʿbd-hw ʿbdḫrn
   8  w-l-wzʾ s¹mt-hw Ḫmrnm wldm
   9  w-ḥyw ʾfs¹-hmw w-rḍw ʾmrʾ-h—
  10  mw w-l-wzʾ ḫmr-hmw mh-m{y}w
  11  ytḍʿnn b-ʿm-hw w-l-hʿnn-
  12  hmw bn nḍʿ w-s²ṣy s²nʾm

Apparatus
1-2Preissler 1997: 133 integrates: mqtwy[t bn.
3-4Beeston 1982 d: 313 regards ḥmn as a dialectal variant of ʿmn "together with".
4Preissler 1997: 137-138: wqmw = wqh-hmw.
5k-hʿn-hw is probly an imperfect with graphic omission of y (Beeston 1982 d: 314).
6In the word bʿl, the letter "l" was incised above a previous "s²".
hʿnw is probably a dialectal form or a mistake for hʿn-hw
7There is an ancient amendment in the second word, after the letter "h": "y" instead the previous "n".
hyn is a hapax.
ʿbdḫrn could be read: ʿbdḫ<m>rn and Ḫmrnm could be a hypocoristic of this (Beeston 1982 d: 314).
10mh-myw is an indefinite pronoun (Bron 1981 b: 164). Stein 2003 a: 151, n. 139 rightly proposes to delete y, unless it is again a graphic peculiarity.

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  ʾs³lḥ and Ḫmrnm, the two officers of the [king/qayl]
   2  ʿzzʾl, dedicated and entrusted their
   3  son ʿbdhyn to the Lord of Ḥds¹,
   4  together with this bronze statue because, (whereas) they had been disappointed,
   5  specially as to (the hope) that He might deliver him (the son) from sickness in his infancy,
   6  yet now the Lord of Ḥds¹ has in fact so delivered him. And may He
   7  in future be indulgent towards His servant ʿbdḫrn
   8  and may He favour him, namely Ḫmrnm, with future children
   9  and long life for themselves and the goodwill of their overlords;
  10  and may He in future grant them whatsoever
  11  they beg of Him; and may He deliver
  12  them from humiliation and malice of any enemy.
Beeston 1982 d: 314Beeston, Alfred F.L. 1982. The 'lord of ḥds¹' votive text. Annali dell’Istituto Orientale di Napoli, 42: 312-314.

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeArtefact » Base » Of statue with dedicatory inscription
MaterialStone
Dimensionsh. 22, w. 17
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin
Modern siteUnknown (Yemen)
Ancient siteUnknown
CountryYemen
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Garbini 1976: 302-308, pl. 4Garbini, Giovanni 1976. Iscrizioni sudarabiche. Annali dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli, 36/2: 293-315.
Bron 1981 b: 164Bron, François 1981. Notes d'épigraphie sud-arabique. Annali dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli, 41/1: 161-164.
Beeston 1982 dBeeston, Alfred F.L. 1982. The 'lord of ḥds¹' votive text. Annali dell’Istituto Orientale di Napoli, 42: 312-314.
Preissler 1997Preissler H. 1997. Das kulturelle Niveau von Abhängigen in mittelsabäischen Inshriften. Pages 133-141 in Roswitha G. Stiegner (ed.). Aktualisierte Beiträge zum 1. Internationalen Symposion Südarabien, interdisziplinär an der Universität Graz mit kurzen Einführungen zu Sprach- und Kulturgeschichte. In memoriam Maria Höfner. Graz: Leykam.
Stein 2003 a: 151, n. 139Stein, Peter 2003. Untersuchungen zur Phonologie und Morphologie des Sabäischen. (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 3). Rahden: Marie Leidorf GmbH / Westf.: Marie Leidorf GmbH.