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MAFYS-Ḍuraʾ 3 RES 4069; Ry 63
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Late Sabaic | ||||||||
| Script | Ancient South Arabian | ||||||||
| Script typology | Monumental writing | ||||||||
| Text direction | Right-to-left | ||||||||
| Text appearance | Recessed | ||||||||
| Execution technique | Incision | ||||||||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Construction text |
TEXT
1 S²rḥbʾl Ykml w-S²rḥʾl Yqbl w-Mrṯdʾ—
2 ln ʾḥṣn w-S¹myfʿ ʾs²wʿ w-bny S²rḥbʾl |
3 Lḥʿt Yrḫm w-S¹myfʿ ʾs²wʿ ʾlht Yzʾ—
4 n w-Gdnm w-Ylġb w-Yṣbr ʾqwl s²ʿb-hmw Ḍyftn
5 w-Rṯḥm w-Mhrt w-kbwr s²ʿbn S¹ybn ʿḏbw w-hṣlḥn
6 ms¹qy ʾrḍ-hmw S¹hbm bʿd-n hṯbrt w-s³ḥb kl ʿq—
7 r-hw w-mbrʾ-hw w-mḍlʿ-hw bn mʿrbt Rfʾm((Rqʾm)) ʿdym ʿd
8 [... ...]mḍlʿtn wẓr Lgʾm w-nqbw nqb Tbʿt b—
9 [... ... ]y ʾmtn s¹ẓrn w-brʾw w-hṣlḥw ḥrt-hw w-
10 ʾḍrf-hw w-mḍlʿ-hw w-ʿqr-hw w-wʿb kl wʿb qh-hw b-ṯ—
11 ny ʿs²r ymtm b-rdʾ w-nṣr Rḥmnn mrʾ s¹myn wrḫ-hw
12 ḏ-Ḫrfn ḏ-l (ṯ)—
13 mnt w-ts¹ʿy w-
14 ḫms¹ mʾtm
| Reading based on Robin's unpublished photo. | |
| 5 | S¹ybn corresponds to S³ybn in MAFRAY-Abū Ṯawr 4, 5. |
| 8 | wẓr (Müller), wkr (Ryckmans and Robin). |
| 12-14 | at the left side of the text, monograms. |
| Two letters: ḥ and b above the text. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 S²rḥbʾl Ykml, S²rḥʾl Yqbl, Mrṯdʾ- 2 ln ʾḥṣn, S¹myfʿ ʾs²wʿ, and the sons of S²rḥbʾl: 3 Lḥʿt Yrḫm and S¹myfʿ ʾs²wʿ, those of the clans Yz- 4 ʾn, Gdnm, Ylġb, Yṣbr, the ʾqwl of their tribes Ḍyftn, 5 Rṯḥm, Mhrt and the kabwr of their tribe S¹ybn repaired and put in good order 6 the irrigation system of S¹hbm after it had been destroyed and it had been swept (by the flood) all its land 7 its construction, its terracing from the construction in stones of Rfʾm (Rqʾm) to the 8 terracings of the bedrock of Lgʾm. They excavated a channel of Tbʿt 9 [... ...] cubits, two spans. They built and put in good order its dam, 10 its part of the dam, its terracing and its land. The completion of its work was completed in 11 twelve days with the help of Rḥmnn, the Master of heaven. In the 12 month of Ḫrfn of the 13 year five hundred 14 ninety-eight. |
| 5 | "toute la partie postérieure du réservoir" (Robin). |
| 8 | "d'une étendue" instead of a channel of Tbʿt (Robin). |
| 10 | qh-hw as "by his order" (Müller). |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Rock |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Hajar am-Dhaybiyya |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | Wādī Ḍuraʾ |
| Country | Yemen |
| Found | In situ |
| Link to site record |
CULTURAL NOTES
See Ry 534+MAFY-Rayda 1 on mrʾ s¹myn.
See RES 5085, a text from the same region written by members of the Yzʾn clan, referring to construction works to the terrace fields of that territory.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Ryckmans, Gonzague 1932: 289-295 (facsimile) | Ryckmans, Gonzague 1932. Inscriptions sud-arabes. Deuxième série. Le Muséon, 45: 285-313. |
| Lundin 1960: 78-94 | Lundin (=Loundine), Avraam G. 1960. Južnoarabskaja stroitel'naja nadpis' nachala VI b. Epigrafika Vostoka, 13: 78-94. |
| Gajda 1997: 65-68 | Gajda, 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: 87-88 | Müller, Walter W. 2010. Sabäische Inschriften nach Ären datiert. Bibliographie, Texte und Glossar. (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission, 53). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. |