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Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions

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RES 4688 Ry 159


By kind permission of British Museum

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic
ScriptAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Text directionRight-to-left
Text appearanceRecessed
Execution techniqueIncision
Measure of letters2.8
Chronology
PeriodC
Textual typologyConstruction text - fragmentary (conjectural)

GENERAL NOTES

Both RES and Kitchen 2000: 569 take this to be a QAT inscription, for the presence of the god ʿm ḏ-Ys¹rm. This god was worshipped in the wādī al-Jūba, an area long disputed between Sabaʾ and Qatabān. There is no doubt that our inscription is a SAB one.

TEXT

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   1  [... ...]←t-(hw)[... ...](([... ...]t w-[... ...]))
   2  [... ...](ṯ) w-Mḏḥgm w-Rġḍm w-kl bny-hm←w w-ʾ[... ...]
   3  [... ... w-b-ḏt ]Bʿdn w-b-ḏt Ḥmym w-b-ʿm ḏ-Ys¹rm ← w-b ʾm(r)[ʾ-hmw ... ...]

Apparatus
2At the end of the line Jamme integrates: w-ʾ(l)[wd-hmw.
RES sees the proper names as the names of buildings and then traslates w-kl bny-hw "et tout leur édifice". As Jamme has suggested, however, these could be the names of people, followed by "and their children".

OBJECT INFORMATION

DepositLondon, The British Museum, BM 125349=1936,0509.1
Support typeStone piece
MaterialAlabaster
Dimensionsh. 11.5, w. 17.5, th. 6.7
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin
Modern siteUnknown
Ancient siteUnknown
Geographical areaUnknown
CountryUnknown
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Ryckmans, Gonzague 1937: 242-243, pl. IVRyckmans, Gonzague 1937. Inscriptions sud-arabes. Quatrième série. Le Muséon, 50: 239-268.
Kitchen 2000: 569Kitchen, Kenneth A. 2000. Documentation for Ancient Arabia. Part II. Bibliographical Catalogue of Texts. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.