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Ja 699
Jamme 1962 a: pl. 26
Jamme 1962 a: pl. 26
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 | 2.5 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
GENERAL NOTES
| The inscription is complete in Jamme's photograph. |
TEXT
1 S¹mḏrḥ ḏ-Gmʿn (h)[qny]
2 mrʾ-hw ʾlmq(h)[w Ṯ]—
3 hwn bʿl ʾwm ṣl(m)[n ḏ]-
4 ḏhbm ḥmdm b-ḏt hʿ[n w]-
5 mtʿn grb-hw bn mrḍ mr—
6 ḍ w-l-wzʾ ʾlmqhw hʿnn
7 w-mtʾn ʿbd-hw S¹mḏrḥ ḏ-Gm—
8 ʿn bn nḍʿ w-s²ṣy s²nʾm ḏ-r—
9 ḥq w-qrb b-ʾlm<qh>w bʿl-ʾwm
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 S¹mḏrḥ, he of Gmʿn dedicated 2 to ʾlmqhw Ṯ- 3 hwn, the Lord of ʾwm, the statue of 4 bronze, because He protected 5 and saved his person from the sickness 6 which he had; and may ʾlmqhw continue to protect 7 and save His subject S¹mḏrḥ he of Gm- 8 ʿn from maleficence and the malice of any enemy far or 9 near. By ʾlmqhw, the Lord of ʾwm. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | London, The British Museum, BM 141534=1985,0223.3 |
| Support type | Artefact » Base » Of statue with dedicatory inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Dimensions | h. 32, w. 22.8, th. 16 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Maḥram Bilqīs |
| Ancient site | ʾwm |
| Geographical area | Maʾrib |
| Country | Yemen |
| Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of ʾlmqh bʿl ʾwm |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Jamme 1962 a: 189-190, pl. 26 | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1962. Sabaean Inscriptions from Maḥram Bilqîs (Mârib). (Publications of the American Foundation for the Study of Man, 3). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press. |