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RES 3902 bis N° 138 RES 3902 N° 138; Ja 114; Ghul-YU 27


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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
Measure of letters1.6
Chronology
PeriodC
Textual typologyDedicatory text

GENERAL NOTES

Chronologically the text could also be of period D.

TEXT

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   1  ʾlwhb w-ʾḫ(y)-
   2  hw w-bny-hw b—
   3  (n)w Grbyn hqny—
   4  w mrʾ-hmw ḏ-S¹m—
   5  y bʿl-Mdrn ʾb—
   6  l{m}n-ḏ-ḏhbn l-
   7  ḫmr-hmw ḥyw
   8  [... ...](m)w

Apparatus
3Lrbyn instead of Grbyn (Jaussen).
4-5ḏ-S¹my as an abbreviated form of ḏ-S¹mwy (Sima 1999 b).
5the engraver firstly wrote ʾblm | which then corrected as ʾblmn, without deleting the m. In fact, grammatical reasons suggest to read ʾbl{m}n
8bʿr-h]mw (RES).

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  ʾlwhb and his brother
   2  and his son, they
   3  of Grbyn, dedicated
   4  to their Lord ḏ-S¹mwy,
   5  Master of Mdrn, the camel
   6  in bronze in order for Him to
   7  grant them the life
   8  [... ...]

OBJECT INFORMATION

DepositAden, The National Museum, NAM 2350=AM 60.758
Support typeArtefact » Base » Of statue with dedicatory inscription
MaterialStone
Dimensionsh. 17.5, w. 11.5, th. 7.5
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin
Modern siteUnknown
Ancient siteUnknown
Geographical areaUnknown
CountryUnknown
Archaeological contextReligious context: Temple of ḏ-S¹mwy bʿl Mdrn
NotesWissmann 1964 a: 36 located the sanctuary of Mdrn in the wādī Najrān, from where the inscription may come.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Mordtmann and Mittwoch 1932 a: 122Mordtmann, Johannes H. and Mittwoch, Eugen 1932. Altsüdarabische Inschriften. Orientalia, 1: 24-33.
Jamme 1952 b: 131Jamme, Albert W.F. 1952. Pièces épigraphiques sud-arabes de la collection de K. Muncherjee, I. Le Muséon, 65: 95-137.
Hayajneh 2002: 194-197, figs 4a-bHayajneh, Hani 2002. Erneute Behandlung einiger altsüdarabischen Inschriften. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 13/2: 193-222.
Sima 1999 bSima, Alexander 1999. "Another monotheistic dedication: Ja 2956" ? Anmerkungen zu den Namensformen des Gottes ḏS¹mwy und seines Tempels Yġrw. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 89: 207-224.