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RES 3512B Ry 4
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Ḥaḍramitic | ||
| Script | Ancient South Arabian | ||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||
| Text direction | Right-to-left | ||
| Text appearance | Recessed | ||
| Execution technique | Incision | ||
| Measure of letters | 4 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
TEXT
1 (H)wfʿs³t bn S³mrm s¹qny S¹yn ḏ-ʾlm nf←s¹-s¹ w-ʾḏn-s¹ w-←wld-s¹ w-qn(y)-(s¹) w-ms¹lmhn ḏ-l-s¹m y(w)[m ...←...] ḏ-q—
2 ←(n)y w-bʿl [...] (bnhy) (ʾʿrs³) [...]ly ḏ-(ʾ)←mʿdm b-mw(t)←r ḏ-Tḥrbhn b-(Ṯl)m ywm (ṣr)[y] S¹yn ḏ-[ʾlm ←...]n mwqrthn |
| 1 | At the end of the line: ]y-s¹ ḏ-q (RES); yw[m s²ʾm w-qny w-bʿl w-ẓ]rb (Rhodokanakis); [... ...]r[ w-s¹]krb ḏ-q (Jamme). In fact, although not sure, rb could be a possible reading before ḏ-q. |
| 2 | At the beginning of the line: w-bʿl [.....](bnh) (RES); w-bʿl [b-ʿm] (bnhy) (Rhodokanakis and Jamme). Further on: ʾʿrs³ Hl[.]ly (RES); ʾʿrs³ [...] (Rhodokanakis); ʾʿrs³ Hm[ʿ]ly (Jamme); Tḥrbḥn (Rhodokanakis); ḏt-Ḥrbhn (Jamme). At the end: ṣr[.] s¹ṯn ḏ- (RES); ṣw[b] S¹yn ḏ- (Rhodokanakis); ṣr S¹yn ḏ-ʾl[m b]n (Jamme). Jamme assumes there are only two letters missing, but the length of the lacuna at this point, either on l. 2 or on l. 1, cannot be surely ascertained. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Hwfʿs³t son of S³mrm dedicated to S¹yn ḏ-ʾlm his life, his faculties, his children, his possessions and the altar that belongs to them, when [... ...] what he acquired 2 and possessed [...] the sons of ʾʿrs³ [...]ly of ʾmʿdm, in the cultivated land of ḏ-Tḥrbhn at Ṯlm, when S¹yn ḏ-ʾlm gave His oracular decision [... ...] the (?). |
| 2 | "am Tag da er ausg[oß] dem S¹yn von [ʾlm] {eine Libation} [au]s dieser Ausgußöffnung (Rhodokanakis); "dans la région très herbue de Ḥarabhân, à Ṯâlim, au jour où il façonna [ceci] pour Sîn, Celui de ʾIlum, [c]e cette pierre taillée (Jamme). |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | London, The British Museum, BM 117929=1926,0405.1 |
| Support type | Artefact » Offering table » With bull head as gutter (ms¹lm) |
| Dimensions | h. 9.4, w. 61, th. 30 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | ʿUqrān |
| Ancient site | ʿqrn |
| Geographical area | Central Ḥaḍramawt |
| Country | Yemen |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Ryckmans, Gonzague 1927: 169-172 | Ryckmans, Gonzague 1927. Inscriptions sud-arabes. Première série. Le Muséon, 40: 161-200. |
| Rhodokanakis 1936: 54-56 | Rhodokanakis, Nikolaus 1936. Zur Interpretation Altsüdarabischer Inschriften I. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 43: 21-76. |
| Wissmann 1968: 46, pl. III/2 | Wissmann, Hermann von 1968. Zur Archäologie und antiken Geographie von Südarabien. Ḥaḍramaut, Qatabān und das ʿAden-Gebiet in der Antike. (Uitgaven van het, Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Instituut te İstanbul, 24). Istanbul: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten. |
| Jamme 1971 b: 63-64 | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1971. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe II. Washington. 2025/04/17; https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.38250313. [Privately printed] |