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Rb I/84 nos. 183+184a-b+185+182a-b


INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Ḥaḍramitic
ScriptAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Text directionRight-to-left
Text appearanceRecessed
Execution techniqueIncision
Chronology
PeriodB
Textual typologyDedicatory text

GENERAL NOTES

Probably of periob B2, on the basis of the formularies.

TEXT

marker


   1  Hywḥ bn ʿmʾns¹ s¹qny ḏt-Ḥmy—
   2  m bḥthn ḏt rḍwt ʿlh-n-s¹ bn b—
   3  hl s²tʿr w-ftqd w-tḍʾ Hyw—
   4  ḥ b-ʾḏn ḏt-Ḥmym nfs¹-s¹ w-ʾḏn-s¹
   5  w-wld-s¹ w-qny-s¹

Apparatus
Frantsouzoff's edition doesn't make us sure that the text is complete.

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  Hywḥ son of ʿmʾns¹ dedicated to ḏt-Ḥmym
   2  the covering slab, by which She was pleased by him, according to the
   3  oracle that he interpreted and sought for; and Hywḥ placed
   4  under the will of ḏt-Ḥmym his life, his faculties,
   5  his children and his properties.
2For the translation of bḥt and the rḍw formula, see Raybūn-Kafas/Naʿmān 148.

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeStone piece
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin and provenance
Modern siteRaybūn
Ancient siteRybn [oasis]
Geographical areaCentral Ḥaḍramawt
CountryYemen
Archaeological contextReligious context: Temple of ḏt Ḥmym ḏt Rḥbn
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Frantsouzoff 1995: 17, 21Frantsouzoff, Serguei A. 1995. The Inscriptions from the temples of Dhat Ḥimyam at Raybūn. With a Postscript by Alfred F.L. Beeston. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 25: 15-28.
Frantsouzoff 2003 b: 50Frantsouzoff, Serguei A. 2003. En marge des inscriptions de Raybūn (remarques sur la grammaire, le lexique et le formulaire de la langue ḥaḍramoutique épigraphique). Arabia. Revue de Sabéologie, 1: 39-58.