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CIH 575
Mordtmann and Mittwoch 1931: 54-57 (photo)
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 | Dedicatory text - fragmentary |
TEXT
1 [... ...]m [hq]n[yw s²]—
2 [y]m-hmw Tʾlb Rymm bʿl
3 [... ...] ḏt ṣl<m>tn ḥ[g]-
4 [n] wqh-hmw b-ms¹ʾl-hw ḥ[m]—
5 dm b-ḏt ṣry-hmw w-mtʿ [s²]—
6 [ʿ]bn ḏ-Rʾym bn ḫbṭn
7 [ḏ]-ḫbṭ Dʾyn b-ʾrḍn w-ʿ—
8 [..]bnwt b-ʿwm ʾḥd ḏ—
9 [.]m Rʾym w-b-m hwt yw—
10 [mn] ḏ-hrg [w-T]ʾlb f-wz[ʾ]
11 [ṣr]y bn hwt ʿwfyn s²—
12 [ʿbn] ḏ-Rʾym kbr-hmw w-ṣ[ġr]-hmw
13 w-[kl]-ʾwld-h[mw]
| Reading by Mordtmann and Mittwoch. | |
| 3 | ʾmr Rymm (CIH); ḏ-Mr Rymm (Mordtmann and Mittwoch); Robin (1982 a: i, 52) suggests ḏ-Mrmr. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 [... ...]m dedicated to their Patron 2 Tʾlb Rymm, Master of 3 [... ...] this statue, as 4 He ordered them in His oracle, in praise 5 because He protected them and saved the 6 tribe ḏ-Rʾym from the epidemic that 7 Dʾyn suffered from in the land and 8 ... during one year (?) .. 9 .. Rʾym, and in that day 10 of the killing; and may Tʾlb continue 11 to protect from that famine the 12 tribe ḏ-Rʾym, their kbr and their ṣġr 13 and all their children. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Artefact » Base » Of statue with dedicatory inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Unknown (Hamdān) |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | Hamdān |
| Country | Yemen |
| Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of Tʾlb Rymm bʿl ʾmr Rymm |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Mordtmann and Mittwoch 1931: 54-57 (photo) | Mordtmann, Johannes H. and Mittwoch, Eugen 1931. Sabäische Inschriften. Rathjens-v. Wissmannsche Südarabischen-Reise. 1. Hamburg: Friederichsen, De Gruyter. |
| Robin 1982 a | Robin, Christian J. 1982. Les hautes-terres du Nord-Yémen avant l'Islam. (2 vols), (Uitgaven van het Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Instituut te Istanbul, 50). Istanbul: Nederlands Historisch-Archaelogisch Instituut te Istanbul. |