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  • Editor(s)
    Alessandra Avanzini
    CSAI Team
  • First published
    2013-10-01
  • Last revised
    2019-05-11
  • DOI
    10.82194/dasi-epi-260
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Ry 522 Gl 1722


By kind permission of British Museum
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By kind permission of British Museum
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Ryckmans, Gonzague 1954: 107-110

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 letters6
Chronology
PeriodD
Textual typologyLegal text - fragmentary
Royal inscriptionYes

TEXT

marker


      [... ...]
   1  w tʿlm Whbʾ(l) Yḥz m(lk )(S¹bʾ) l-ʾd[m-hw ... ...]—
   2  ʿl w-ṯtmrn w-ʿtkrn w-tfrn w-ḥs²[... ...]
   3  mlk S¹bʾ l-ʾdm-hw bny Btʿ w-ḥg[... ... Wh]—
   4  bʾl Yḥz mlk S¹bʾ w-ʾḫy-hw W[... ... ]
   5  w-kl (ʾḫy)-(hmw) w-bny-hmw w-ḏ-ʾʿḏr-h[mw ... ...]

Apparatus
1-2perhaps [b]ʿl.
2at the end of the line: ḥs²[k (Ryckmans).
4The ḫ of ʾḫy-hw is written in the opposite way. At the end of the line: w-b[ny-hw] (Ryckmans).

TRANSLATIONS

English

      [... ...]
   1  and Whbʾl Yḥz king of Sabaʾ ratified for his vassals [... ...]
   2  [... ...] and exploit and made fertile and cultivate and [... ...]
   3  king of Sabaʾ for his vassals the banū Btʿ and according to [... ... Wh]-
   4  bʾl Yḥz king of Sabaʾ and his brother W[... ...]
   5  and all their folksmen and their children and their descendants [... ...].

OBJECT INFORMATION

DepositLondon, The British Museum, BM 104395=1911,0513.1
Support typeStone piece
MaterialStone
Dimensionsh. 36.8, w. 54, th. 9
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Provenance. Conjectural
Modern siteṢirwāḥ-Khawlān
Ancient siteṢrwḥ
Geographical areaṢirwāḥ
CountryYemen
NotesThe provenance is hypothetical, see Höfner 1976: 23.
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CULTURAL NOTES

The king grants lands to his vassals.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Ryckmans, Gonzague 1954: 107-110Ryckmans, Gonzague 1954. Inscriptions sud-arabes. Onzième série. Le Muséon, 67: 99-119.
Höfner 1976: 23Höfner, Maria 1976. Inschriften aus Ṣirwāḥ, Ḫaulān. (II Teil). Sammlung Eduard Glaser. 12. (Sitzungsberichte der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 304/5). Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.