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Ga 16 Hakir 1; CIH 448
By kind permission of K. Noman
By kind permission of K. Noman
Grjaznevič 1978: fig. 51/a-b
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Southern 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 | Construction text | ||||||||
| Royal inscription | Yes |
GENERAL NOTES
| The inscription was first published and for long time studied as lacking the right part, which Garbini has identified in a fragment of inscription (CIH 448 right part = Gl 379 = Hakir 1a) found in the same village. According to him, the lacuna should be 15 characters long. For another inscription under the reign of Ys¹rm Yhnʿm and S²mr Yhrʿs², see CIH 46 (ḏ-Mhltn of 385 Ḥim). |
TEXT
1 Ys¹rm Yhnʿm w-bn-hw S²mr Yhrʿs² m↯[lky S¹bʾ w-ḏ-Rydn ... ...]w-ndb w-hqs²[b ... ... ]gnʾ w-ṣwbt w-mḥfdt hgr-hmw
2 Hkrm w-hdbw-hw w-brʾ w-ḥẓyn mbrʾ ↯[... ... ]mbrʾm ḥs³s³m w-ʾbnm [....]m w-ws³fw w-rymw kl gnʾ-hw w-ṣwbt-
3 hw w-mḥfdt-hw ḏ-ṯny s¹qfyn w-ḏ-s¹qfm b-ʿ↯[... ... ]gnʾ-hw w-ṣwbt-hw w-mḥfdt-hw bn mrym-hw ʿdy ṯrt-hw w-hdbw-hw w-hʿqbn
4 gnʾm qs²bm w-hmrw-hw w-s²rʿw-hw ḫṭln ↯[... ... ]ḫdʿw w-hʿqbw l-ḫlf-hw mṣrʿtm mbrʾ w-mqyḥ kl ṣdqm bn mwṯrm ʿdy t—
5 frʿm b-mlʾ ʿs²rt ymtm bn wrḫn ḏ-Mbkr[n↯ ... ...]b-mqm mrʾ-hmw ʿṯtr-S²rqn w-ʾs²ms¹-hmw w-ʾlʾlt-hmw w-b-ʾḫyl w-mqymt ḫmys¹
6 ḏ-Ry(dn) [w]-hrṯdw hgr-hmw Hkrm b-tḥ↯[... ...] b-wrḫn ḏ-Qyẓn ḏ-b-ḫrfn ḏ-l-s¹ṯt w-ṯs¹ʿy w-ṯlṯ mʾtm bn ḫrf Mbḥḍ bn ʾbḥḍ
| 1 | ndb following Gl 379. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Ys¹rm Yhnʿm and his son S²mr Yhrʿs², the two kings of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān [... ...] and constructed and built [... ...] the wall, the staircases, the towers of their town 2 Hakir and they constructed, built and finished off the construction [... ...] a construction in mud brick (or with plaster) and in stone [... ...] and increased and heightened all its wall, its staircases, 3 its towers with two roofs and with a roof [... ...] its wall, its staircases, its towers from the upper part to the foundation and constructed it and added later 4 a new wall and built an access way and equipped it with another building (ḫṭln) [... ...] repaired the collapsed parts and added later to its gate leaves, construction and implementation of complete perfection from the foundation to the 5 top within ten days from the month of Mbkrn [... ...]. With the power of their Lord ʿṯtr S²rqn and their solar divinities and their gods and with the mights and the powers of the main armies 6 of ḏu-Raydān. They committed their town Hakir [... ...] in the month ḏ-Qyẓn in the year three hundred ninety-six of the year of Mbḥḍ, son of ʾbḥḍ. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Stone piece |
| Material | Stone |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Hakir |
| Ancient site | Hkrm |
| Geographical area | Dhamār |
| Country | Yemen |
| Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
| Archaeological context | Urban context |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Garbini 1971 a: 303-309, pls I-II/a | Garbini, Giovanni 1971. Iscrizioni sabee da Hakir. Annali dell'Istituto Orientale di Napoli, 31/3: 303-311. |
| Grjaznevič 1978: pls 51/a-b, 52 | Grjaznevič, Petr A. 1978. Materiali ekspedicii P.A. Grjaznevičia 1966-1967 gg. Južnaja Aravija. Pamjiatniki Drevnej Istorii i Kultury. 1. Moscow: Glavnaja redakzija vostočnoj literatury. |
| Müller, Walter W. 2010: 35 | Müller, Walter W. 2010. Sabäische Inschriften nach Ären datiert. Bibliographie, Texte und Glossar. (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission, 53). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. |