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Robin-Najr 1 Ry 308; RES 5010


Robin 1982 a: ii, pl. 51

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Late Sabaic
ScriptAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Text directionRight-to-left
Text appearanceRaised
Execution techniqueIncision
Chronology
PeriodE
Start date - BCE/CE487 CE
End date - BCE/CE487 CE
Date accuracyAccurate

TEXT

marker


   1  [... ...]mr[.]tn (mdrtn )[w-]mq(brt)-(h)w [..](tm b)-ws¹ṭ-hw [... ...]
   2  [... ...] (ʾ)ḫwt-hw w-ʾḫwt ʾbwt-h{w}mw b-s²hdn ḏ-[... ...]
   3  [... ...] ḏ-ʾln ḏ-l-s¹bʿt [w-](ts¹)ʿy w-(ḫms¹ mʾ)tm s¹lwm

Apparatus
1Müller reads mrgtn "green land".
3perhaps b-wrḫn] or wrḫ-hw].

TRANSLATIONS

French

   1  [... ...] ?? et son tombeau ? en son milieu [... ...]
   2  ses frères et les frères de leurs pères, sur la stèle funéraire [... ...]
   3  [... ... Au moi de] ḏ-ʾln de l'année cinq cent quatre-vingt-dix-sept. Paix

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeStone piece
MaterialStone
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin and provenance
Modern siteNajr
Ancient siteUnknown
Geographical areaʿAmrān
CountryYemen
FoundReemployed. In modern times
NotesOriginally the stone was probably inserted in a funerary context.
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CULTURAL NOTES

See Ir 71 on the word s¹lwm "shalōm" as expression of Jewish believers.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Ryckmans, Gonzague 1939 a: 111-112, (facsimile)Ryckmans, Gonzague 1939. Inscriptions sud-arabes. Cinquième série. Le Muséon, 52: 51-112.
Robin 1982 a: i, 84-85, pl. 51Robin, Christian J. 1982. Les hautes-terres du Nord-Yémen avant l'Islam. (2 vols), (Uitgaven van het Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Instituut te Istanbul, 50). Istanbul: Nederlands Historisch-Archaelogisch Instituut te Istanbul.
Gajda 1997: 64-65Gajda, 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: 86Müller, Walter W. 2010. Sabäische Inschriften nach Ären datiert. Bibliographie, Texte und Glossar. (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission, 53). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.