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MAFRAY-al-Miʿsāl 9 Ja 2861


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 typologyDedicatory text

TEXT

marker


   1  Mʿdkrb ʾs¹ʾr bn Whbʾl ʿmdn w-Wtrm
   2  Yrtʿ w-Lḥyʿt Bryn ʾqwl Rdmn w-Ḫwl—
   3  n bnw Mʿhr w-ḏ-Ḫwln hqny l-S²ms¹-hw ʿl—
   4  yt ʿdy ʿr-hw S²ḥrrm rntn w-ġfrn |
   5  ywm ʿfr b-Thmm b-mhrg ḫmrtn ṯntn

Apparatus
4Rntn w-B[... ...] (Jamme).
5thmm 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  Mʿdkrb ʾs¹ʾr, son of Whbʾl ʿmdn, Wtrm
   2  Yrtʿ and Lḥyʿt Bryn, ʾqwl of Rdmn and ḏ-Ḫwln,
   3  banū Maʿāhir and ḏ-Ḫwln, dedicated to his solar deity ʿlyt
   4  at Her (lit. his) mountain S²ḥrrm, the bow (?) and the helmet (?)
   5  when he stood out in Thmm for the killing of (his) second slave (fem.)(?). (Following Robin in l.4 and Stein 2003 in l.5).
"in Her fortress S²ḥrtm Rnntn and B[... ...] when he has irrigated the crop in Thmm during the conflict of the second vintage" (Jamme); "sur son mont S²ḥrtm, l'arc (?) et le casque, lorsqu'il a triomphé (?) de l'épreuve (?) en tuant (sa) deuxième esclave (?)" (Robin); Beeston (1988: 11-13) interprets ʿfr as a methatesis of frʿ "offer firstfruits" and thmm as "with promptitude, promptly".
Beeston 1988Beeston, Alfred F.L. 1988. Miscellaneous Epigraphic Notes II. Raydān, 5: 5-31.
Robin 1991Robin, 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.
Jamme 1976Jamme, Albert W.F. 1976. Carnegie Museum 1974-75 Yemen Expedition. (Special Publication, 2). Pittsburgh: Carnegie Museum of Natural History.

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeRock
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin and provenance
Modern siteal-Miʿsāl
Ancient siteWʿln
Geographical areaal-Bayḍāʾ
CountryYemen
FoundIn situ
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Jamme 1976: 111-112, pl. 21Jamme, Albert W.F. 1976. Carnegie Museum 1974-75 Yemen Expedition. (Special Publication, 2). Pittsburgh: Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
Robin 1991: 177, figs 15-16Robin, 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 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.