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Y.85.Y/3 Eryani 48


Garbini 1988: pl. 54/b

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

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

TEXT

marker


   1  [... ...] ʾḏnt mwd Ydʿʾl w-Yṯʿʾmr hqny ʾlmqh ʿlmḫ [... ...]
   2  [... ...] Ydʿʾl b-ʿly gnʾ Ḥfry w-ygnʾn-h w-hqm-h l-ḫlf-(h)[... ...]
   3  [... ...]mḥt-hw w-hnbṭ bʾrn Rwym b-ʾrydy w-ryd mnq[l... ...]
   4  [... ...] ʾrḫ-hw ʿd ḏ-ʾns²mm b-ʿṯ[t]r [w]-b [ʾ]lmqh w-b ḏt-(Ḥ)[mym ... ...]

Apparatus
1Jamme quotes erroneously ʿlmn[ḫ] "the (two) signs".
4Jamme restores (b)-ʾrḫ-hw.

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  [... ...] ʾḏnt, friend of Ydʿʾl and Yṯʿʾmr, dedicated to ʾlmqh ʿlmḫ [... ...]
   2  [... ...] Ydʿʾl on the wall of Ḥfry; and he surrounded it with a wall and erected it up to its gate [... ...]
   3  [... ...] his mḥt; and he dug the well of Rwym in ʾrydy and opened a road [... ...]
   4  [... ...] his affairs (?) as far as "him of ʾns²mm". By ʿṯtr, ʾlmqh and ḏt Ḥmym [... ...].
1Garbini: mḥt-hw "the disappearance (?) of it".
2Jamme: he will wall it and erect it for his country.
3Jamme: he desired a mountain pass.
4Jamme: in his undertaking in Ḏū+ʾns²amum.
Garbini 1988: 38-39Garbini, 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: 25-26Jamme, Albert W.F. 1989. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe XVII. Washington. 2025/04/17; https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.38250298. [Privately printed]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeStone piece
MaterialStone
Dimensionsh. 19, w. 65+16
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin and provenance
Modern siteYalā
Ancient siteḤfry
Geographical areawādī Yalā
CountryYemen
NotesḤfry is mentioned in the text.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Garbini 1988: 38-40, pls 53/b, 54/a-bGarbini, 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: 25-26Jamme, Albert W.F. 1989. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe XVII. Washington. 2025/04/17; https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.38250298. [Privately printed]