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2013-10-01
DOI

10.82194/dasi-epi-3939

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CIH: i/iv, pl. XXXVIII

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

TEXT

marker

Apparatus

	Reversed letter ḫ.
1	[H]ʿn (CIH, Beeston); as bny-hw is dual or plural and as the verb hqnyw is plural (not dual), it seems that the sons mentioned are two and a w- has been omitted between the names Yḥmd and Yġbr (CIH, Beeston).
11	ʾmwrtn[..] (CIH).
12-13	12-13: ḏ-Dṯʾ (CIH).

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  [.]ʿn Yʾzm and his sons Yḥmd [and] Yġbr of the banu S¹myʿm,
   2  clients of the banu Btʿ, dedicated to their Patron Tʾlb Rymm
   3  Lord of Qdmn of Dmhn a bull of bronze and a stone tablet (?)
   4  so that He protects them and grants them copious crops in
   5  their fields and pastures and because Tʾlb-Rymm saved
   6  His servant Yḥmd from the sickness he suffered from in (or coming from?) S¹hrtn
   7  and the land of Hwzn and they praised the might and power of Tʾlb Rymm
   8  so that He grants them the satisfaction of their lords and their tribe
   9  and protects them from harm and malice of any enemy far or
  10  near and they praised Tʾlb for all the favours he granted them in his oracle
  11  and they praised Tʾlb because he increased the crops(?)
  12  of their fields and pastures. And this dedication took place in the month
  13  Dṯʾ of the year of S¹ʿdʿṯtr son of Ḥwfʿṯt, at the termination of the eponymous office;
  14  and because He saved them from the land of Ḥimyar and the ʿrbn and from every expedition
  15  they made; and because He granted His servant Yḥmd two
  16  men whom he slew and buried (?) at ʿṯrb and Mʿlln and because He saved him
  17  from the battle field Ṭmḥn to (or in) Ḫyl; by Tʾlb Rymm.

6	Beeston 1937 a hypothesizes for "bn" a partitive or distributive use ("sicknesses, partly at Srhtn, partly in the land of Hwzn").
11	Beeston 1937 a notes about ʾmwrtn that "what the context would lead us to expect is something like "crops" and translates "(corn crops ?) [in]", accepting the two letters lacuna at the end of the line prospected by CIH (so probably to be restored with " b+").
13	Beeston 1937 a considers Ṣwʿm the second name of Ḥwfʿṯt, while in the Sabaic Dictionary he gives for ṣwʿ-m the meaning "termination of the eponymous office". CIH translated "opus caelatum" (that is, using Beeston's words "a work in embossed metal").

Beeston 1937 a	Beeston, Alfred F.L. 1937. Sabaean inscriptions. Oxford.

OBJECT INFORMATION

Deposit	Istanbul, Ancient Orient Museum, 7484
Support type	Artefact » Base » Of statue with dedicatory inscription
Material	Stone
Dimensions	h. 75, w. 46
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin

Modern site	al-Ḥuqqa
Ancient site	Dmhn
Geographical area	Banī al-Ḥārith
Country	Yemen
Archaeological context	Religious context: Temple of Tʾlb Rymm ʿdy Qdmn
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Conti Rossini 1931: 47-48	Conti Rossini, Carlo (=Karolus) 1931. Chrestomathia Arabica Meridionalis Epigraphica. Rome: Istituto per l'Oriente.
Beeston 1937 a: 39-41	Beeston, Alfred F.L. 1937. Sabaean inscriptions. Oxford.

CSAI

Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions

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DOI

CIH 343