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Ṣirwāḥ-04


Arbach 2005 b: 315, fig. 1

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Early Sabaic
ScriptAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Text directionBoustrophedon
Text appearanceRecessed
Execution techniqueIncision
Chronology
PeriodA
Textual typologyLegal text

TEXT

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   1  Ṣdqyfʿ bn Ḥmʿṯt bn ʿnmt—
   2  n hs²ʾm w-hqny ʿṯtr-s²ymm ʿd
   3  Rḥb bnt-hw Hrbm ḏt hwld bn
   4  ʾmt-hw Ḥytm ḏt qny bn ʿmn ʾbs¹m—
   5  ʿ ḏ-Ḫlfn w-l tḥr Hrbm ḥg yḥrn ʾq—
   6  ny[t ʿṯtr-]s²ymm w-kwnt ḏt s²ʾmtn
   7  w-hqnytn b-ḏ Ns¹wr qdmn ḏ-rs²wt
   8  S¹mhkrb ḏ-Mbḥrt s¹mʿm Bʿṯtr b—
   9  [n ʿ]nmtn w-Bʿṯtr bn S²h[rʿ]ly [... ...]

Apparatus
6Arbach reads s²ʾmtm.
7Arbach reads hqnyt.

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  Ṣdqyfʿ, son of Ḥmʿṯt, ibn ʿnmt ‒
   2  n, sold and dedicated to ʿṯtr S²ymm in
   3  Rḥb his daughter Hrbm whom he generated with
   4  his servant Ḥytm whom he purchased from ʾbs¹m-
   5  ʿ of Ḫlfn; and Hrbm must be (in the temple), as (the other women) dedicated to ʿṯtr S²ymm
   6  must be. And this sale
   7  and the dedication were (lit. "was") in the first month of Ns¹wr (or: in the month of Ns¹wr, the former), during the priesthood of
   8  S¹mhkrb ḏ-Mbḥrt. Witnesses thereof are Bʿṯtr ibn
   9  ʿnmtn and Bʿṯtr son of S²hrʿly [...].
5-6"que Hrbm mette en vigueur l'engagement, conformément à ce qui a été décrété dans l'acte d'achat de ʿAtthar" (Arbach).
"and Hrbm might be (in the temple), as there were (the other women) the possessions of ʿṯtr S²ymm" (Avanzini).
7"in the first ten days of the month Ns¹wr" (Avanzini).
Arbach 2005 b: 315Arbach, Mounir 2005. Le commerce d'esclaves en Arabie du Sud préislamique d'après une nouvelle inscription sabéenne du VIIe s. av. J.-C. Pages 314-317 in Alexander V. Sedov and Irina M. Smilyanskaya (eds). Arabia Vitalis. Studies in honour of Vitaly V. Naumkin. Moscow: Rossiikaya Akademiya Nauk.
Avanzini 2006: 40Avanzini, Alessandra 2006. To accompany a recently published Sabaic text: historical and grammatical remarks. Pages 37-46 in Pier Giorgio Borbone, Alessandro Mengozzi and Mauro Tosco (eds). Loquentes linguis. Studi in onore di Fabrizio A. Pennacchietti. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
Stein 2009: 89-90Stein, Peter 2009. Review of Borbone, Pier Giorgio, Mengozzi, Alessandro and Tosco, Mauro (eds) 2006. Loquentes linguis. Studi in onore di Fabrizio A. Pennacchietti. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. Zeitschrift für Arabische Linguistik, 50: 87-96.

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeStone piece
MaterialStone
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin
Modern siteṢirwāḥ-Khawlān
Ancient siteṢrwḥ
Geographical areaṢirwāḥ
CountryYemen
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Arbach 2005 b: 314-317, fig. 1Arbach, Mounir 2005. Le commerce d'esclaves en Arabie du Sud préislamique d'après une nouvelle inscription sabéenne du VIIe s. av. J.-C. Pages 314-317 in Alexander V. Sedov and Irina M. Smilyanskaya (eds). Arabia Vitalis. Studies in honour of Vitaly V. Naumkin. Moscow: Rossiikaya Akademiya Nauk.
Avanzini 2006: 39-44, fig. 1Avanzini, Alessandra 2006. To accompany a recently published Sabaic text: historical and grammatical remarks. Pages 37-46 in Pier Giorgio Borbone, Alessandro Mengozzi and Mauro Tosco (eds). Loquentes linguis. Studi in onore di Fabrizio A. Pennacchietti. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.