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CIH 531
By kind permission of British Museum
By kind permission of British Museum
By kind permission of British Museum
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic | ||
| Script | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Text direction | Right-to-left | ||
| Text appearance | Recessed | ||
| Execution technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 3.5 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text - fragmentary |
TEXT
1 [... ...]wm ḏ-Wtrm ʾdm mlkn
2 [... ... ]ḏ-S¹mwy ʾlh-ʾmrm bʿl
3 [... ... ](ṣ)lmn ḏ-s¹twkl-hw l-wfy
4 [... ... ](Y)ḥmʾl ḏ-Wtrm w-l wfy
5 [... ... w]fy ʾbʿl byt-hmw w-l s¹ʿ—
6 [d ... ... ḏ-]S¹mwy ʾwldm hnʾn w-l
7 [... ... w]fy-hmw b-ʾmlʾ s¹tmlʾ—
8 [w ... ... ]l-yzʾn blt mydʿt
| 1 | the reading [... ...]ʿm is possible. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 [... ...]wm ḏ-Wtrm, subjects of the king 2 [... ...]ḏ-S¹mwy, the god of ʾmrm, the Lord of 3 [... ...]the statue, by which they sought His favour for the well-being 4 [... ...] Yḥmʾl he of Wtrm and for the well-being 5 [... ...]the well-being of the lords of their house, and may He grant 6 [... ...]ḏ-S¹mwy healthy children 7 [... ...]to grant them favourable oracles which they ask 8 [... ...]may He continue to send divine favour. |
| 1 | Wtrm is the name of the temple of ḏ-S¹mwy in Marib. |
| 3 | the verb s¹twkl is probably a plural with the assimilation of the final w before -hw. |
| 8 | mydʿ, the plural of mydʿt, is a synonym of ʾmlʾ "oracles" (e.g. Ja 567, 18), but we find an unusual usage of blt, which normally has the concrete meaning of "to send a dispatch, a legation". |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | London, The British Museum, BM 125035=1863,0216.3 |
| Support type | Artefact » Slab |
| Material | Stone |
| Dimensions | h. 32, w. 23, th. 11.5 |
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Unknown |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | Unknown |
| Country | Unknown |
| Notes | CIH attributed the provenance of the inscription to Mārib, which was confirmed by Sima 1999 b: 219. |
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