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CIH 463
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
1 [w-l yh]ʾtwn ḏ-q[ṭm]
2 [ʿdy mḫtn]-hw w-hʾtw-h—
3 w [ʾs¹m s¹ʾ]lm b-qdm ḫ—
4 [lf Ḥẓrm] ʿrbm b-s¹bʿm
5 ḏ-Frʿ ḏ-ʿṯtr w-s³wr-hw
| Beeston's reading. | |
| 4 | Ḥẓrm see CIH 461. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 let him offer a sacrifice 2 [in] his sanctuary. And there must offer unto him 3 [any seeker of an oracular response], before the gate 4 [of Ḥẓrm], an oblation on the seventh 5 of ḏ-Frʿ ḏ-ʿṯtr, and (set it apart?) [...] (Following Beeston). |
| The root ḏqṭ is rendered by Lundin (1972 a: 65) with "establish the right of ownership". Cf. also Sima 2000: 144-145 and fn. 503 on the formulary with ḏqṭ. |
| Lundin 1972 a | Lundin (=Loundine), Avraam G. 1972. Inscriptions from Jār al-Labbā. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 2: 65. |
| Sima 2000 | Sima, Alexander 2000. Tiere, Pflanzen, Steine und Metalle in den altsüdarabischen Inschriften. Eine lexikalische und realienkundliche Untersuchung. (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur. Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission, 46). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. |
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 1949: 208-209, 225-226 | Beeston, Alfred F.L. 1949. The oracle sanctuary of Jār al-Labbā. Le Muséon, 62: 207-228. |
| Lundin 1972: 28-37 | Lundin (=Loundine), Avraam G. 1972. O charaktere nadpisej iz Džar al-Labba. Vestnik Drevnej Istorii, 1: 28-37. |