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MAFRAY-al-Ğiḏma 1


Robin 1991: 187, fig. 23

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Southern Middle Sabaic
ScriptAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Text directionRight-to-left
Text appearanceRecessed
Execution techniqueIncision
Chronology
PeriodC
Textual typologyCommemorative text

TEXT

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   1  ʿbdʿm Yhrs¹ bn Ḫbzn w-Ḏ—
   2  rft ʿfr l-S²ms¹-hw b-ḫmrtn
   3  w-qs¹dn w-nmrn w-ʾs¹dn |

TRANSLATIONS

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   1  ʿbdʿm Yhrs¹ ibn Ḫbzn and Ḏ-
   2  rft stood out for his solar deity concerning the female slave,
   3  the qs¹d (?), the panther and the soldier.
For the translation of the verb ʿfr, see MAFRAY-al-Miʿsāl 7
For the various interpretations of qs¹d (Robin: "farmier"; Bron: "priest"), see Stein 2003 a: 117, fn. 535.
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.

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeRock
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin and provenance
Modern siteQāniya
Ancient siteQnʾtm
Geographical areaRadmān
CountryYemen
FoundIn situ
NotesThe inscription is engraved on the same rock as the Qāniya hymn.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bāfaqīh 1988: 606, photoBāfaqīh, Muḥammad ʿA. 1988. al-Mustašriqūn wa-āṯār al-Yaman. Qiṣṣa al-mustašriq al-suwaydī al-kūnt Karlū dī Lindbirg min ḫilāl murāsalati-hi maʿa al-yamaniyyīn, 1895-1911. (2 vols), Ṣanʿāʾ: Markaz al-Dirāsāt wa-l-Buḥūth al-Yamanī.
Robin 1991: 187, fig. 23Robin, Christian J. 1991. ʿAmdān Bayyin Yuhaqbid, roi de Sabaʾ et de dū-Raydān. Pages 167-205 in Études sud-arabes. Recueil offert à Jacques Ryckmans. (Publications de l'Institut Orientaliste de Louvain, 39). Louvain-La-Neuve: Université Catholique de Louvain, Institut Orientaliste.