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  • Editor(s)
    Irene Rossi
    CSAI Team
  • First published
    2013-10-01
  • Last revised
    2019-10-10
  • DOI
    10.82194/dasi-epi-2412
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Ja 520 Lu 10


Jamme 1955 e: 129, pl. II

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Late Sabaic
ScriptAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Text directionRight-to-left
Text appearanceRecessed
Execution techniqueIncision
Chronology
PeriodE
Textual typologyConstruction text - fragmentary
Royal inscriptionYes

GENERAL NOTES

The inscription might be in relief.
The text has to be dated back to 400-420 AD (cf. Robin and Rijziger 2018: 480)

TEXT

marker


   1  [... ... ʾbkrb ʾ]s¹ʿd (w)-[... ...]
   2  w-Ḥgr ʾyfʿ ʾm[lk ... ... m]—
   3  lk S¹bʾ w-ḏ-Ry[dn w-Ḥḍrmwt w-Ymnt ... ...]
   4  [.]hr bn mwṯrn ʿ[dy ... ...]
   5  [.. ](b)ḏt ʾ[m]r-hmw [... ...]

Apparatus
3for Ymnt see Robin 2013: 131-133.
4The editors integrate ʿ[dy mrymn.

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeStone piece
MaterialStone
Dimensionsh. 30, w. 45
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Provenance
Modern siteQaryat al-Qābil
Ancient siteUnknown
Geographical areaWādī Ḍahr
CountryYemen
NotesIn 1955, when Jamme saw the inscription, it was placed in the garden of imām's house.
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CULTURAL NOTES

This is the oldest attestation of the theonym Rḥmnn (cf. Robin and Rijziger 2018: 480).

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Jamme 1955 e: 117-118, pl. IIJamme, Albert W.F. 1955. Inscriptions sud-arabes de la collection Ettore Rossi. Rivista degli Studi Orientali, 30: 103-130.
Lundin 1963 a: 43-45Lundin (=Loundine), Avraam G. 1963. Novye južnoarabskie nadpisi muzeja v Ṣanʿa (I). Epigrafika Vostoka, 15: 36-50.
Gajda 1997: 19-20Gajda, Iwona 1997. Ḥimyar gagné par le monothéisme (IVe-VIe siècle de l'ère chrétienne). Ambitions et ruine d'un royaume de l'Arabie méridionale antique. (Université d'Aix-en-Provence).
Robin 2013Robin, Christian J. 2013. À propos de Ymnt et Ymn: « nord » et « sud », « droite » et « gauche », dans les inscriptions de l'Arabie antique. Pages 119-140 in Françoise Briquel-Chatonnet, Catherine Fauveaud and Iwona Gajda (eds). Entre Carthage et l’Arabie heureuse. Mélanges offerts à François Bron. (Orient & Méditerranée, 12). Paris: de Boccard.
Robin and Rijziger 2018: 480Robin, Christian J. and Rijziger, Sarah 2018. "The Owner of the Sky, God of Israel" in a new Jewish Ḥimyaritic inscription dating from the fifth century CE. Der Islam, 95/2: 271-290. 2019/10/08; https://doi.org/10.1515/islam-2018-0050.