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CIH 464
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
[... ... mn]
1 yḏqṭ b-Y[bḥt b-tḥt]—
2 y ḏn wṯnn [ḏ-qṭm w-ʿ]—
3 rbm f[-l y]ʾmrn hyʿm
4 s¹dy[m w-l] yhʿynn ʾ[wd]—
5 t ḏn wṯnn ʿynm w-b-
6 dlh s²lṯ ʾʿynm w-l
7 ynḫ-hw [s²]lṯ ʾʿynm w-
8 b-ʿly mnṭft[n ys¹d s¹]—
9 ʾrt dm ṭlyn [...]
10 w-dyn b-qḥfm w-[...]
| Beeston's reading. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
[... whosoever] 1 sacrifices at Y[bḥt beneath] 2 this pillar [a sacrifice and] 3 oblation, let him proclaim "an offering 4 (of blood) poured out", and let him turn himself towards 5 the boundary (marked by) this pillar once, and towards 6 its corresponding one(s) three times, and let him (the priest) 7 cause him to bow down turning himself about thrice, and 8 upon the altar of sacrifice [he shall pour out] 9 the whole of the blood of two lambs [...] 10 flowing in streams [...] |
| The verb yḏqṭ 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 this verb. | |
| "auf dem Opferaltar [...] der Rest vom Blut des Lammes" (Sima 2000: 144). |
| 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: 209, 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. |