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Hon 5 CSAI I, 131
Honeyman 1962: pl. V
Honeyman 1962: pl. V
By kind permission of British Museum
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Qatabanic » Central Qatabanic | ||
| Script | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Text direction | Right-to-left | ||
| Text appearance | Recessed | ||
| Execution technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 5 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
GENERAL NOTES
| The missing portion of text had to be engraved on another stone. Pirenne: "ces dédicaces étaient fixées les unes à côté des autres sur le mur du temple". |
TEXT
1 ʾlqdm w-S²hzn bn[... ...]
2 s¹qnyw ʾl-s¹my ʾṯrt [... ... h]—
3 grn Hrbt s²mry wm[... ...]
4 l-trdʾ ʾlqdm w-S²h[zn ... ...]
5 b-nʿmtm w-b-ḏtm b[... ...ʾ]—
6 lqdm w-S²hzn ʾṯrt[ ... ...]—
7 y w-mqmhy-s¹my w-kl[... ...]—
8 my bn ms¹nkrm (b)n b—
9 rṯ-s¹
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 ʾlqdm and S²hzn sons of[... ...] 2 dedicated to God of both of them ʾṯrt[... ... the] 3 town of Hrbt two votive items[... ...] 4 may She help ʾlqdm and S²h[zn ... ...] 5 in what has been favourable and in what [... ... ʾ]- 6 lqdm and S²hzn ʾṯrt [... ...] 7 and the material resources of both of them and all [... ...] 8 against everyone who may damage it from its 9 place. |
| 3 | Pirenne considered s²mry to be a divine epithet, but s²mry is assuredly the dedicated object. s²mry is also attested in CIAS 47.11/o 1, 3. I thoght that it was a dual noun (see Sima 2000: 303 and n. 55); there are two gods in CIAS 47.11/o 1 to whom the dedication is being made. According Robin (Calvet and Robin 1997: 188) in QAT a dual -y is uncommon, he therefore hypothezied that s²mry is a form fʿly. But in QAT we find other examples of endings of dual in -y after the dedication verbs, so I prefer to analyze s²mry as a dual noun. |
| Calvet and Robin 1997 | Calvet, Yves and Robin, Christian J. 1997. Arabie heureuse. Arabie déserte. Les antiquités arabiques du Musée du Louvre. Avec la collaboration de Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet and Marielle Pic. Paris: Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux. |
| Sima 2000 | Sima, Alexander 2000. Tiere, Pflanzen, Steine und Metalle in den altsüdarabischen Inschriften. Eine lexikalische und realienkundliche Untersuchung. (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur. Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission, 46). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | London, The British Museum, BM 132333=1958,0712.1 |
| Support type | Artefact » Slab |
| Material | Stone |
| Dimensions | h. 57, w. 29.5, th. 4 |
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Ḥinū az-Zurayr |
| Ancient site | Hrbt |
| Geographical area | Wādī Ḥarīb |
| Country | Yemen |
| Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of ʾṯrt |
| Notes | Despite in the text there is not the epithet of the goddess, the inscription was probably placed in the sanctuary of ʾṯrt ḏt Ys¹l. |
| Link to site record |
CULTURAL NOTES
ʾṯrt is the main god of Ḥinū az-Zurayr, where she is worshipped in the sanctuary of Ys¹l (see for example MuB 542=CSAI I, 146). She also has a temple called Qbln in the capital of Qataban (MuB 539=CSAI I, 145).
ʾṯrt bʿl Mhnn is attested in the region of Ḫudrāʾ (Aylward 2=CSAI I, 123). This goddess often has masculine epithets, as she is called "god" and "master".
ʾṯrt bʿl Mhnn is attested in the region of Ḫudrāʾ (Aylward 2=CSAI I, 123). This goddess often has masculine epithets, as she is called "god" and "master".
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Honeyman 1962: 39-42, pl. 5 | Honeyman, Alexander M. 1962. Ephigraphic South Arabian Antiquities. Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 21: 38-43. |
| Pirenne 1966: 73-80 | Pirenne, Jacqueline 1966. Contribution à l'épigraphie sud-arabiques. Semitica, 16: 73-99. |