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CIH 41


By kind permission of K. Noman
unpublished photo

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Southern Middle Sabaic
ScriptAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Text directionRight-to-left
Text appearanceRaised
Execution techniqueIncision
Chronology
PeriodD
Textual typologyConstruction text

TEXT

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   1  ʾbkrb Yhẓbn bn Mḏr(ḥm) w-Ṯf(yn) w-M(ly)km ʾr(s²)w ʿlm ʾqw(l) s²ʿ(bn )(Mh)ʾnfm brʾ
   2  w-ṯwbn byty-hmw Mhwrn w-Ys¹r w-ms³wd-hmw Ḥrwr b-rdʾ ʿṯtr S²rqn w-ʾl-hmw ʿṯtr ḏ-
   3  G<w>ftm bʿl ʿlm w-S²rqn w-ḏt Ḥmym bʿly mḥrmn Rydn (w)-ʾl-hmw Bs²r w-mḍḥ-hmw Bʿl S²bʿn
   4  w-S²ms¹-hmw w-b-rdʾ w-tḥrg mrʾ-hmw Y(s¹)[r](m)-Yhṣdq mlk S¹bʾ w-ḏ-Rydn w-b-ʾḫyl (s²)ʿb-(hmw )(Mhʾnfm) Yḍʿ

Apparatus
1Mḏrḥm is the clan of Mhʾnfm, often associated with Ṯfyn and Mlykm (e.g. CIH 40, Ja 651, BynM 2); ʾrs²w might be either a contracted plural form of ʾfʿlw pattern or a ʾfʿl plural form (cf. Stein 2003 a: 80, fn. 295).
1CIH integrated brʾ[w w-hwṯrn, but from the photo it is clear that there is no lacuna.

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  ʾbkrb Yhẓbn descendant of Mḏrḥm, Ṯfyn and Mlykm priests of ʿlm, ʾqwl of the tribe Mhʾnfm constructed
   2  and completed their two houses Mhwrn and Ys¹r and their hall Ḥrwr, by the help of ʿṯtr S²rqn and their god ʿṯtr ḏ-
   3  Gwftm Master of ʿlm, and S²rqn and ḏt Ḥmym, the two Masters of the temple Raydān, and their god Bs²r and their tutelary deity Master of S²bʿn
   4  and their solar deity, and by the help and the command of their lord Ys¹rm Yhṣdq king of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān, and by the power of their tribe Mhʾnfm Yḍʿ.

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeArchitectural structure
MaterialStone
Dimensionsh. 40, w. 100
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Provenance
Modern siteḌāf
Ancient siteḌfw
Geographical areaDhamār
CountryYemen
FoundReemployed. In modern times
Archaeological contextUrban context: Private house Mhwrn w-Ys¹r
NotesSimilarly to CIH 42 and CIH 43 this inscription, now reemployed at Ḍaf, could come from Yakār (Ns³ftm) (Wissmann 1976, 443).
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Stein 2003 aStein, Peter 2003. Untersuchungen zur Phonologie und Morphologie des Sabäischen. (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 3). Rahden: Marie Leidorf GmbH / Westf.: Marie Leidorf GmbH.