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LuBM 1
By kind permission of British Museum
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 » Early Sabaic | ||
| Script | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Text direction | Right-to-left | ||
| Text appearance | Raised | ||
| Execution technique | Casting | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
TEXT
1 [ ... ...]ʾl bn ʿmʾns¹ rs²w Rhmw hqny Rhmw Lḥyʿ←ṯt w-Ṣbḥhmw ywm ← [q](yn) ʿṯtr ḏ-Ms¹wʿtm b-ʿṯtr
| 1 | Lundin and Frantsouzoff read the verb: [ṣ](yd) "led a sacred hunt", but the third letter couldn't be a d, as ]yn is clearly legible. We integrated: q]yn. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 [... ...]ʾl son of ʿmʾns¹, priest of Rhmw, dedicated to Rhmw Lḥyʿṯt and Ṣbḥhmw, when he was the qyn of ʿṯtr ḏ-Ms¹wʿtm. By ʿṯtr. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | London, The British Museum, BM 135323+BM 135324=1970,0604.1-2 |
| Support type | Artefact » Altar |
| Shape | Squared |
| Material | Bronze |
| Dimensions | h. 66, w. 110, th. 34.5 |
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Unknown |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | Unknown |
| Country | Unknown |
| Notes | Mārib as the place of origin for the altar is purely hypothetical and only suggested by the splendour of the bronze altar. |
| Link to site record |
CULTURAL NOTES
A man, priest of the god Rhmw, dedicated two men to Rhmw, when he was "qyn" (reading not sure) of another god, ʿṯtr ḏ-Ms¹wʿtm.
The god is unknown apart from this inscription. The city of Rmw, mentioned in CIH 616, which was located on the high plateau, probably has no link with the theonym.
The god is unknown apart from this inscription. The city of Rmw, mentioned in CIH 616, which was located on the high plateau, probably has no link with the theonym.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Lundin and Frantsouzoff 1997: 384-391 | Lundin (=Loundine), Avraam G. and Frantsouzoff, Serguei A. 1997. An Inscribed Sabean Bronze Altar from the British Museum. St. Petersburg Journal of Oriental Studies, 9: 384-391. |
| Simpson 2002: 169, cat. 213 | Simpson, St John (ed.) 2002. Queen of Sheba. Treasures from the ancient Yemen. London: British Museum Press. [Catalogue of an exhibition held at the British Museum, London] |
| Jändl 2009: 49-50, 146 | Jändl, Barbara 2009. Altsüdarabische Inschriften auf Metall. (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 4). Tübingen: Wasmuth / Berlin: Wasmuth. |