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Rb I/88 no. 133


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 - fragmentary

TEXT

marker


   1  [... ...](ly)( s¹qny)
   2  [ḏt Ḥmym ḏt Rḥ](bn) ms³ndhn ḏ-rḍ—
   3  [wt ʿlh-n-s¹ ḏt] Ḥmym b-ms¹ʾl ḥṭhm

Apparatus
1Frantsouzoff integrates [Ftḥʾl bn Ḍrʿ]ly; he suggests that before the patronymic there might be the name of the dedicant's profession.

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  [... ...]ly dedicated
   2  to ḏt Ḥmym ḏt Rḥbn the inscription, by which ḏt Ḥmym
   3  was pleased by him, according to the oracle of relief (= the favourable oracle).

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 1999 a: 36-37Frantsouzoff, Serguei A. 1999. Old Ḥaḍrāmi roots of an enigmatic Qurʾānic term. Pages 34-44 in M.N. Souvorov and M.A. Rodionov (eds). Cultural Anthropology of Southern Arabia: Hadramawt Revisited. St.-Petersburg: Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography.