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CIH 405
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 |
GENERAL NOTES
| Halévy's copy. |
TEXT
1 [ʾlr]m ʾs²wʿ bn Qwy[... ...]
2 [mqt]wy mlkn ʾ[... ...]
3 ḥwr hgrn [Ṣrwḥ hqny ʾlmqh b]—
4 ʿ*l* S¹bʿm ṯrm w-ʾbln |
5 [ʾl]y ḏhbm ḥg-n [... ...]
6 [...]bʿm ʾlrm [.]ʾh[... ...]
7 ḏ-mrḍ tnkrn ʿrqm b-ʾḏ[n ... ...]
8 ys¹mʿn w-tnkr-hw ʾs¹m ms²[... ...]
9 hwt mrḍn w-kwn b-lb-hw w[ ... ...]—
10 ʾ ġrb b-tḥt ʾmrʾ-hm[w ... ...]—
11 [.] w-b-ʿm ʾḫyr-*s²*ʿb-hmw Ṣrw[ḥ ... ...]
12 hḍgm b-ġzwtm b-ʾʿrr[ ... ...]—
13 d-hmw b-s¹hln w-tḍrʿ w-tnṭʿ |
14 l-mrʾ-hw *b*ʿ(l) S¹bʿm bn [hwt mr]—
15 ḍn w-bn tʿks³ w-nḍ[ʿ] w-s²[ṣy s²nʾm]
16 w-ʾlmq[h] f-yhgbʾn w-nqm kl [s²n]—
17 ʾ-hm[w] w-ʾlmq[h] y[h]ṯbn l-ʿbd-hw |
18 [ʾ]lrm ṣd[q]-hw b-kn tfl b-ms¹[bʾm l]-
19 wfy ʿbd-hw ʾḏ s¹bʾ w-yḫmrn [... ...]
20 l-hw w-wqh [... ...]
| CIH emendations to Halevy's reading have been mostly accepted. | |
| 2 | ʾ[dm (CIH). |
| 4 | ṯrm is one of the rare cases of scriptio defectiva of the name ṯwr. |
| 6 | b-ʿm l-grmy ʾh (Halevy's copy). |
| 7 | w-tnkrn (Halevy's copy). |
| 9-10 | ʿ[... ...]-ʾ b-rb (Halevy's copy). |
| 12 | b-bzwtm (Halevy's copy). |
| 17 | ʾhm w-ʾlmqh yṯbn l-ʾb-hw (Halevy's copy). |
| 19 | ff l-ʿbdhqn ḏ-s¹bʾ (Halevy's copy). |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 ʾlrm ʾs²wʿ ibn Qwy[... ...] 2 mqtwy of the king .[... ...] 3 inhabitant of the city of Ṣrwḥ, dedicated to ʾlmqh, 4 Master of S¹bʿm the bull and camel 5 in bronze, as [... ...] 6 [...]... ʾlrm ..[... ...] 7 that he fell in ... ... [... ...] 8 he hears, and punished him a man .. [... ...] 9 this sickness and (that) was in his heart and [... ...] 10 he was aware of, under the authority of their lords [... ...] 11 and with the noblemen of their tribe Ṣiwḥ [ ... ...] 12 ... in the raid in the mountains, their [... ...] 13 in the plain, and he showed humiliation and submission (?) 14 to his Lord Master of S¹bʿm concerning this 15 sickness and the injury, maleficence and malice of the enemy, 16 and as for ʾlmqh, may he punish and take reprisals on all their 17 enemy, and ʾlmqh will reward his servant 18 ʾlrm for his proper actions, when he was robbed (?) during an expedition 19 for the safety of his servant when he will carry out an expedition, and (He) will grant [... ...] 20 to him, and ordered [... ...] |
| 7-8 | "quo aegrotavit et dignotus est ob maciem in auri[bus eius qui] audiebat" (CIH). |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Stone piece |
| Material | Stone |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Ṣirwāḥ-Khawlān |
| Ancient site | Ṣrwḥ |
| Geographical area | Ṣirwāḥ |
| Country | Yemen |
| Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of ʾlmqh bʿl S¹bʿm |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Höfner 1976: 23-24 | Höfner, Maria 1976. Inschriften aus Ṣirwāḥ, Ḫaulān. (II Teil). Sammlung Eduard Glaser. 12. (Sitzungsberichte der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 304/5). Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. |