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CIH 435


By kind permission of Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
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By kind permission of Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
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INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic
ScriptAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Text directionRight-to-left
Text appearanceRecessed
Execution techniqueIncision
Chronology
PeriodC
Textual typologyLegal text

TEXT

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   1  Ynʿm w-bny-hw bnw ʾʿzz gzmw gzn ʿṯtr ḏ-Ḏbn k-ḏ-m yt—
   2  ʿlmnn b-nḥltm w-mḥrtm l-bn ʾdm w-ʾmh bny ʾʿzz b-byt—
   3  n w-gbltn ʾly ys¹mynn ḏ-Ynʿm b-ḫms¹n rbʿn ḏ-Ḍqrn((Ḍqrn)) byt w-gblt
   4  s²ʾm Ynʿm ʿm-n bny Ks²ḥt k-l-yknn hʾ by(tn) w-(gbltn bytm) [.]
   5  [... ...]

Apparatus
3ḏ-Bqrn (CIH).
4-5w-gbltm] (CIH).

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  Ynʿm and his sons, banū ʾʿzz swore (their) oath to ʿṯtr ḏ-Ḏbn: that they
   2  will authenticate the grant and decree for the offspring of the vassals and female servants of the banū ʾʿzz, be they (employed) in the
   3  house or the cultivated land, which are named ḏ-Ynʿm, in the fourth fifth of Ḍqrn; house and land
   4  that Ynʿm has bought from the banū Ks²ḥt, so that this house and land should be one house ..
   5  [... ...]

OBJECT INFORMATION

DepositWien, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Sem 17
Support typeStone piece
MaterialStone
Dimensionsh. 24, w. 84
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin
Modern siteMaʾrib
Ancient siteMryb / Mrb
Geographical areaMaʾrib
CountryYemen
NotesThe text was found by Arnaud and first published by Möhl (1845: ii,180) as an inscription on Mārib dam's walls. However, Müller, David H. 1899: 37-39 maintains that it simply was in the vicinity of the dam.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Rhodokanakis 1917: 154-157Rhodokanakis, 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.
Rhodokanakis 1936: 44-45Rhodokanakis, Nikolaus 1936. Zur Interpretation Altsüdarabischer Inschriften I. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 43: 21-76.