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2014-03-09
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10.82194/dasi-epi-3915

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Solá Solé 1964: pl. 16/1-2

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

Chronology

Period

Textual typology

Dedicatory text

GENERAL NOTES

Photo of Glaser's estampage. CIH 315 corresponds to two identical texts (Gl 1359 and 1360); see Solá Solé 1964 for a comparison.

TEXT

marker

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  Yrm ʾymn and Brg Yhrḥb sons of ʾws¹lt Rfs²n of the banū
   2  Hamdān, ʾqwl of the tribe S¹mʿy, the third of Ḥs²dm dedicated
   3  to their Patron Tʾlb Rymm Lord of Trʿt six statues
   4  when Tʾlb Rymm bʿl Trʿt favoured them
   5  in Yrm ʾymn's, of the banū Hamdān, process of pacification, armistice and reconciliation
   6  between the kings of Sabaʾ, ḏu-Raydān, Ḥaḍramawt and Qatabān
   7  and their armies and their tribes during the war which was undertaken and occurred
   8  in all the lands among all the kings and the armies, and Yrm ʾymn
   9  of the banū Hamdān persuaded his lords the kings of Sabaʾ and the banū
  10  ḏu-Raydān and the rest of the kings to accept this peace, and Yrm concluded the peace and the reconciliation
  11  between the kings and the armies by the help, the assistance and
  12  the favour of their patron Tʾlb Rymm, and Yrm ʾymn
  13  and Brg Yhrḥb sons of ʾws¹lt Rfs²n of the banū Hamdān recorded
  14  thanks to the power and the authority of their Patron Tʾlb Rymm
  15  Lord of Trʿt because He granted them favour in this process of peace in the year
  16  of Ṯwbn son of S¹ʿdm of the banū (?) Yhs³ḫm and because He bestowed on them
  17  all the favours they sought from Him and in order for Him to
  18  continue to bestow His favours on them and to grant
  19  them the goodwill and satisfaction of their lords the kings of Sabaʾ, and may
  20  Tʾlb continue to keep themselves and their resources sound and
  21  may Tʾlb Rymm Lord of Trʿt destroy, humiliate and defeat
  22  all their rivals and their enemies, by Tʾlb
  23  Rymm.

4-8

"als ihr Patron Taʾlab Riyām, Herr von Turʿat, ihnen gewährte, dass Yrm ʾymn von Stamm Hamdān zwischen den Königen von Sabaʾ und Ḏū Raydān und Ḥaḍramawt und Qatabān, deren Kerntruppen und Stammesverbänden Frieden stiftete, einen Waffenstillstand schloss und Versöhnung zustande brachte im Krieg, der entstanden war und stattfand im ganzen Land zwischen allen (genannten) Königen und (deren) Kerntruppen" (Nebes 1987: 78).

Nebes 1987	Nebes, Norbert 1987. Zur Konstruktion von Subjekt und Objekt abhängiger Infinitive in Sabäischen. Pages 75-98 in Christian J. Robin and Muḥammad ʿA. Bāfaqīh (eds). Ṣayhadica. Recherches sur les inscriptions de l'Arabie préislamique offertes par ses collègues au professeur A.F. L. Beeston. (Arabie préislamique, 1). Paris: Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner.

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support type	Stone piece
Material	Stone
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin

Modern site	Jabal Riyām
Ancient site	Trʿt
Geographical area	Arḥab
Country	Yemen
Archaeological context	Religious context: Temple Tʾlb Rymm bʿl Trʾt
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Solá Solé 1964: 50-51, pl. 16/1-2	Solá Solé, Josep M. 1964. Inschriften aus Riyām. Sammlung Eduard Glaser. 4. (Sitzungsberichte der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 243/4). Vienna: Böhlaus.

CSAI

Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions

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DOI

CIH 315 Gl 1359; Gr 178