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MAFRAY-al-Miʿsāl 7 Ja 2862
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 | Dedicatory text |
TEXT
1 S¹ydm ʾrs³l bn Mʿhr w-ḏ-Ḫwln
2 bn Whbʾl ʿmdn w-Wtrm Yrtʿ
3 w-Lḥyʿt Bryn ʾqwl Rdmn w-Ḫ—
4 wln hqny S²ms¹-hw ʿlyt ywm ʿ—
5 fr b-Thmm b-mhrg nmrn qdmn
| 5 | thmm as a toponym (Jamme; Stein 2003 a: 120); Robin and Beeston consider thmm as a common noun although giving different meanings to the word. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 S¹ydm ʾrs³l ibn Maʿāhir and ḏ-Ḫwln, 2 son of Whbʾl ʿmdn, Wtrm Yrtʿ 3 and Lḥyʿt Bryn, ʾqwl of Rdmn and ḏ-Ḫ- 4 wln, dedicated to their solar deity ʿlyt, when he stood out in Thmm for 5 the killing of (his) first panther. |
| "when he has irrigated the crop in Thmm during the conflict of the first dotted-clouds season" (Jamme); "lorsqu'il a triomphé (?) de l'épreuve (?) en tuant (son) premier léopard" (Robin); Beeston (1988: 11-13) interprets ʿfr as a methatesis of frʿ "offer firstfruits" and thmm as "with promptitude, promptly". |
| Stein 2003 a: 120 | Stein, Peter 2003. Untersuchungen zur Phonologie und Morphologie des Sabäischen. (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 3). Rahden: Marie Leidorf GmbH / Westf.: Marie Leidorf GmbH. |
| Beeston 1988 | Beeston, Alfred F.L. 1988. Miscellaneous Epigraphic Notes II. Raydān, 5: 5-31. |
| Robin 1991 | Robin, 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. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Rock |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | al-Miʿsāl |
| Ancient site | Wʿln |
| Geographical area | al-Bayḍāʾ |
| Country | Yemen |
| Found | In situ |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Jamme 1976: 113, pl. 21 | Jamme, Albert W.F. 1976. Carnegie Museum 1974-75 Yemen Expedition. (Special Publication, 2). Pittsburgh: Carnegie Museum of Natural History. |
| Robin 1991: 176-177, fig. 26 | Robin, 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. |
| Stein 2003 a | Stein, Peter 2003. Untersuchungen zur Phonologie und Morphologie des Sabäischen. (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 3). Rahden: Marie Leidorf GmbH / Westf.: Marie Leidorf GmbH. |