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CIH 373
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 |
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| Textual typology | Construction text | ||
| Royal inscription | Yes |
GENERAL NOTES
| CIH reports and emendates Mohl's edition (to say Fresnel's texts, in Journal Asiatique I, 1845, 180, 189), while Rhodokanakis Glaser's estampages of Gl 482 and 483. According to Jamme 1962 a: 344-345, the text Ja 879 (cf. Jamme 1955 i: 57 and 33) is a spurious copy of CIH 373. Cf. Wissmann 1976 a: 376, 431-432. |
TEXT
1 Krbʾl Wtr Yhnʿm mlk S¹bʾ w-ḏ-Rydn bn Ḏmrʿly Byn w-Hlkʾmr bn Krbʾl hḥdṯy tlt nkl gwbn l-ʾlmqh l-wfy bytn S¹lḥn w-hgrn M[r]yb
| 1 | CIH emendates Mohl's tlt in zlt, but Rhodokanakis reports Glaser's note: "die beiden "t" sehr deutlich". CIH emendates Mohl's lwbn in gwbn, as it is also in Glaser's copies. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Krbʾl Wtr Yhnʿm king of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydan, son of Ḏmrʿly Byn, and Hlkʾmr son of Krbʾl founded the completion of the work in stone of the gwbn (?) for ʾlmqh for the safety of the palace S¹lḥn and the town of Mryb. |
| 1 | The translation of tlt nkl gwbn is dubious. Rhodokanakis: "haben erneut, was verfallen war vom kunstvoll durchbrochenen Mauerwerk". |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Stone piece |
| Material | Stone |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Maḥram Bilqīs |
| Ancient site | ʾwm |
| Geographical area | Maʾrib |
| Country | Yemen |
| Found | In situ |
| Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple |
| Notes | On the temple's enclosure wall. |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Rhodokanakis 1917: 25-26 | Rhodokanakis, Nikolaus 1917. Studien zur Lexikographie und Grammatik des Altsüdarabischen. II Heft. (Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse, 185/3). Vienna: Alfred Hölder. |
| Jamme 1962 a | Jamme, 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. |
| Jamme 1955 i | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1955. Les albums photographiques de la Collection Kaiky Muncherjee (Aden). (Studi orientali, pubblicati a cura della Scuola orientale, Università di Roma, 3). Rome: G. Bardi. |
| Wissmann 1976 a | Wissmann, Hermann von 1976. Die Geschichte des Sabäerreichs und der Feldzug des Aelius Gallus. Pages 308–544 in Hildegard Temporini (ed.). Politische Geschichte. (Provinzen und Randvölker: Mesopotamien, Armenien, Iran, Südarabien, Rom und der Ferne Osten). Hildegard Temporini and Wolfgang Haase (eds), Aufstieg und Niedergang der Römischen Welt. Geschichte und Kultur Roms im Spiegel der neueren Forschung. II. 9/1. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter / New York: Walter de Gruyter. |