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CIH 174
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic |
| Script | Ancient South Arabian |
| Script typology | Monumental writing |
| Text direction | Right-to-left |
| Text appearance | Recessed |
| Execution technique | Incision |
| Textual typology | Dedicatory text - fragmentary |
TEXT
[... ...]
1 [... ...] w-dṯʾ w-ʾws¹ʿm w-ml[t]m w-nʾd ʾṯmrm [w]-ʾ—
2 [fq]lm ʿdy kl ʾrḍt w-ʾs¹rr w-ms²ymt ʾby[t-h]—
3 mw w-ʾs²ʿb-hmw b-qyẓ w-dṯʾ w-ṣrb w-mlym dr—
4 [m d]rm w-l gyb-hmw bn kl qmʿtm w-tḫybn
5 [... ... w-b]n nḍʿ w-s²ṣy s²nʾm w-mhbʾs¹m w-l w[ḍʿ]
6 w-ṯbr ḍr-hmw w-s²nʾ-hmw Tʾlb Rymm
| CIH's reading. | |
| Before the first preserved line and at the beginning of it CIH suggests: ... ḥg-n s¹ʿd-hmw Tʾlb Rymm frʿ qyẓ]. | |
| 5 | w-nkym w-b]n (CIH). |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 [... ...] 2 [... ...] and spring, and (?), winter crops and abundance of harvests and 3 crops in all the lands and valleys and cultivated areas of their families 4 and their tribes, in the summer season, spring, harvest season and winter, time 5 after time; and may He protect them against every victory and drought (?) 6 [and mischief], and against the harm and malice of any enemy and ill-intentioned person, and may Tʾlb Rymm humiliate 7 and destroy their opponent and their enemy. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Stone piece |
| Material | Stone |
| Dimensions | h. 22, w. 65 |
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Ḥāz |
| Ancient site | Ḥzym |
| Geographical area | Hamdān |
| Country | Yemen |
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