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Ja 2484


Jamme 1972: pl. 19

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Late Sabaic
ScriptAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Text directionRight-to-left
Text appearanceRecessed
Execution techniqueIncision
Chronology
PeriodE
Start date - BCE/CE521 CE
End date - BCE/CE521 CE
Date accuracyAccurate
Textual typologyLegal text
Royal inscriptionYes

TEXT

marker


   1  Mʿdkrb Yʿfr mlk
   2  S¹bʾ w-ḏ-Rydn w-Ḥḍrmt
   3  w-Ymnt w-ʾʿrb-hmw Ṭwdm w-Thm[t]
   4  [hw]rw ḏn wtfn b-Rḥmn k-gmʿ blwdn
   5  [b-k]n s¹bʾ Ḏrḥn b-wrḫn Ḫrfn ḏ-l-ʾ[ḥd w-ṯlṯy w-s¹ṯ mʾtm]

Apparatus
3for Ymnt see Robin 2013: 131-133.
4Jamme's integration is based on the parallel with Ry 510,3, where however a reading hwr is not certain. Perhaps, Rḥmn is a mistaken for the toponym Rḥbn, in any case it is not the name of the God.
5Jamme integrates: [ʾl]n.

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  Mʿdkrb Yʿfr, king
   2  of Sabaʾ, ḏu-Raydān, Ḥaḍramawt,
   3  Yamanat and their Arabs of Ṭwdm and of Thmt
   4  proclaimed this concessionary document in Rḥmn, when he assembled the lands
   5  when Ḏrḥn carried out an expedition, in the month of Ḫrfn, the year [six hundred thirty-one]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeRock
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin and provenance
Modern siteJabal aṣ-Ṣafāʾ
Ancient siteUnknown
Geographical areaTathlīth
CountrySaudi Arabia
FoundIn situ
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Jamme 1972: 85-86, pl. 19 (facsimile)Jamme, Albert W.F. 1972. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe III. Washington. 2025/04/17; https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.38250312. [Privately printed]
Gajda 1997: 89-91Gajda, 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).
Müller, Walter W. 2010: 97Müller, Walter W. 2010. Sabäische Inschriften nach Ären datiert. Bibliographie, Texte und Glossar. (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission, 53). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.
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.