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CIH 461
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Undefined Sabaic |
| Script | Ancient South Arabian |
| Script typology | Monumental writing |
| Text direction | Right-to-left |
| Text appearance | Recessed |
| Execution technique | Incision |
| Textual typology | Legal text - fragmentary |
GENERAL NOTES
| See CIH 460. |
TEXT
[... ... b- b-ṯny ḏ-ʾ]—
1 [gb]y ḏ-ʿṯtr b-bytn [w-]
2 [ʿs¹]y-hw w-ḏbḥ-hw ḏ[bḥ]—
3 [m w]-tʾbrm b-s²l[ṯ ḏ-ʾg]—
4 [b]y ḏ-ʿṯtr w-ʾtw-hw ṯ—
5 nym tʾtwm ʿrbn b-ʾ—
6 rbʿm ḏ-ʾgby ḏ-ʿṯtr
7 qdm ḫlf Bqrn w-h—
8 ʾtwhn ʿd[y] mḫtn-hw
9 w-ṣry S¹mhkrb b-tḥt—
10 y ʿṯtr bn-hw
| Beeston's reading. | |
| 7 | at the beginning of the line, an isolated m is reported in the text, although it is not explained by the editors. Bqrn (and Ḥẓrm see CIH 462, CIH 463) are two gates of the sacred area (Beeston). |
| 8 | qdm instead of ʿdy (CIH). |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
[... ... on the second day of ḏ-ʾ]— 1 gby ḏ-ʿṯtr in the temple; and offered 2 to him and sacrificed to him a sacrifice 3 and burnt-offering on the third of ḏ-ʾgby 4 ḏ-ʿṯtr; and offered unto him 5 a second time the oblation on the 6 last decade of ḏ-ʾgby ḏ-ʿṯtr 7 before the gate of Bqrn and 8 offered them unto him in his sanctuary. 9 And S¹mhkrb delivered the oracular reply by the inspiration 10 of ʿṯtr from it. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Artefact » Stela |
| Material | Stone |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Jār al-Labbā |
| Ancient site | Unknown |
| Geographical area | al-Jawf |
| Country | Yemen |
| Archaeological context | Religious context |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Beeston 1937 a: 48-49 | Beeston, Alfred F.L. 1937. Sabaean inscriptions. Oxford. |
| Beeston 1949: 208, 225 | Beeston, Alfred F.L. 1949. The oracle sanctuary of Jār al-Labbā. Le Muséon, 62: 207-228. |