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Y.85.AQ/6 Eryani 46


Garbini 1988: pl. 40/b

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Early Sabaic
ScriptAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Text directionRight-to-left
Text appearanceRecessed
Execution techniqueIncision
Chronology
PeriodA

TEXT

marker


   1  Khlm
   2  w-S²ʾbt w-[.]rʿ [ʾ]—
   3  mh Yṯʿʾmr
   4  b-ʿm mrʾ-hn
   5  Dnm w-ʾr[ydy]

Apparatus
2-3According to Garbini, the l.2 should be integrated w-[ḏ]rʿ-[h]m(y) "and their offspring", so that this inscription has an historical significance because it demonstrates that the mukarrib paternity is adoptive and not natural. Khlm and S²ʾbt should be therefore the true parents of Yṯʿʾmr. If, on the contrary, it is assumed, following Robin, that the third word is a female name, the allusion to a mukarrib ascending disappears.
4mrʾn-hn emended as a determinate dual by Garbini.

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  Khlm,
   2  S²ʾbt and [.]rʿ, servants
   3  of Yṯʿʾmr
   4  with their lords
   5  at Dnm and ʾrydy.
1Jamme separates Khlm from the remaining lines and adds that there is no way of knowing the role played by this man in the mukarribs' hunts, if any.

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeRock
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin
Modern siteShiʿb al-ʿAql
Ancient siteDnm (?) / ʾrydy (?)
Geographical areaWādī Yalā
CountryYemen
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Garbini 1988: 25-26, pls 40b, 41Garbini, Giovanni 1988. The inscriptions of Si'b al-'Aql, Al-Gafnah and Yala/Ad-Durayb. Pages 21-40 in Alessandro de Maigret (ed.). The Sabaean archaeological complex in the Wādī Yalā (Eastern Hawlān at-Tiyāl, Yemen Arab Republic). A preliminary report. (Istituto italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente. Centro studi e scavi archeologici. Reports and memoirs, 21). Rome: IsMEO.
Jamme 1989: 79-80Jamme, Albert W.F. 1989. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe XVII. Washington. 2025/04/17; https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.38250298. [Privately printed]
Robin 1997 a: 158Robin, Christian J. 1997. Sumhūriyām, fils de Karibʾīl le Grand, et le mukarribat. Pages 155-170 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.