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MAFRAY-al-Ḥijla 1


Robin 1992 c: 220-221, fig. 3-4

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Southern Middle Sabaic
ScriptAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Text directionRight-to-left
Text appearanceRecessed
Execution techniqueIncision
Chronology
PeriodD
Start date - BCE/CE159 CE
End date - BCE/CE159 CE
Date accuracyAccurate
Textual typologyConstruction text

TEXT

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   1  Tbʿm Yhʿn brʾ byt-hw Yʿrm b-ḫrfn ḏ-l-ḫms¹t w-ṯmnhy ḫryft—
   2  m bʿd-n bʾt hgr-hmw Grw w-hgrn Grw w-bʾt b-ḏ-l-ʾḥd w-ṯmnhy ḫryftm w-n—
   3  qz w-brʾ b-ʾrs²s²m w-ʾḥfym b-ywm kwn ḍrm byn mlk S¹bʾ w-ḏ-Rydn w-mlk Ḥ—
   4  ḍrmwt w-mlk Qtbn w-b-ywm kwn s¹ntn b-kl ʾrḍn w-b-kl ʾbʾr s¹rn Mhrm ʾl—
   5  ḥy Tqyn S¹hmym Kbbʾry Ḥs²t w-Thmm [w]-brʾ b-ḥbtm ḥbt wrqm [w]-s¹qym w-ʾk[lm]

Apparatus
2Robin translates Bʾrs²s²m and ʾḥfym as two names of buildings.

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  Tbʿm Yhʿn built and completed his house Yʿrm in the year eighty-five of the years,
   2  after the pest of their town Grw and the town Grw was struck by the pest in the year eighty-one. He excavated
   3  and built in ʾrs²s²m and ʾḥyfm, when there was a war between the king of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān and the king of
   4  Ḥaḍramawt and the king of Qatabān and when there was the infection in all the lands and the wells of the wādī Mhrm: ʾl-
   5  ḥy, Tqyn, S¹hmym, Kbbʾry, Ḥs²t and Thmm. He built in a warehouse, the deposit of vegetables, harvest and crops.

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeStone piece
MaterialStone
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin and provenance
Modern siteUnknown (wādī al-Ḥijla)
Ancient siteUnknown
Geographical areawādī al-Ḥijla
CountryYemen
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CULTURAL NOTES

The general war among all the kingdoms, in the middle of the second century AD, is here mentioned.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Robin 1992 c: 219-224, figs 3-4Robin, Christian J. 1992. Guerre et épidémie dans les royaumes d'Arabie du Sud. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres: 219-224.
Müller, Walter W. 2010: 12Müller, Walter W. 2010. Sabäische Inschriften nach Ären datiert. Bibliographie, Texte und Glossar. (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission, 53). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.