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CIH 69


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 letters4
Chronology
PeriodD
Textual typologyLegal text - fragmentary
Royal inscriptionYes

TEXT

marker


   1  [Ns²ʾkrb] (Y)ʾm(n) [Yhrḥb mlk S¹](bʾ) w-ḏ-R(y)[dn ... ...]
   2  [... ... ʿ]bd-hmw Dwmn Yʾzm (ḏ)-(Ġ)y(mn) [ʿ]l-byt(n)hn Ḏrḥ [... ...]
   3  [... ...] ʾs¹dn w-ʾnṯn w-ms¹(ḫnn) w-kl ʾwld-hmw w-ʾwl[d ... ...]
   4  [... ... ʾ]ḫḏm w-ʿḏr ʿḏrm [... ...] klb (ʿb)d-hw ʾls²rḥ [... ...]
   5  [... ... nʿ]mt mrṯd ḥẓy mḥ[q]b ʾmtḥgr ʾḫkrb n[... ...]
   6  [... ... m]s¹ḫnt wfyn ms²nʾ ḥyw ms¹ḫnt ṣrb s²f[... ...]
   7  [... ... ms¹ḫ]nt ʾbzʾd Rb(ʾ)[l ... ...]

Apparatus
1Jamme's reading (1962 a: 334). CIH integrates at the end w-ḏ-Ry[dn w-ʾḫy-hw w-bny-hmw].
2In ʿl-bytnhn the preposition ʿl(y) is exceptionally written without the mater lectionis because in this case it is felt as a proclitic (there is in fact no word separator between ʿl and the noun); see Stein 2003 a: 43, fn. 207.
2-3Mrḥb [w ... ... w-ʾtww bn-hmy kl] (CIH).
4f-ʾḫḏ ʾ]ḫḏm and ms¹ḫnt after ʿḏrm (CIH).
6s²fqm (CIH).

OBJECT INFORMATION

DepositIstanbul, Ancient Orient Museum, 7517
Support typeStone piece
MaterialStone
Dimensionsh. 24.5, w. 44.7, th. 17
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin
Modern siteGhaymān
Ancient siteUnknown
Geographical areaGhaymān
CountryYemen
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Jamme 1962 aJamme, Albert W.F. 1962. Sabaean Inscriptions from Maḥram Bilqîs (Mârib). (Publications of the American Foundation for the Study of Man, 3). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press.
Stein 2003 aStein, Peter 2003. Untersuchungen zur Phonologie und Morphologie des Sabäischen. (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 3). Rahden: Marie Leidorf GmbH / Westf.: Marie Leidorf GmbH.