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Ir 2
INSCRIPTION INFORMATION
| Language | Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central 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 - fragmentary |
GENERAL NOTES
| Iryānī gives a division of the text into paragraphs, without respecting the lines. The lines are here divided, with some corrections, after the new photo published in Raydān journal. The text is dated to 80-100 CE. |
TEXT
1 [Whbʿṯt ... ...]
2 [... ...](ml)ʾ s¹tmlʾ b-ʿm-hw [... ...]
3 l-hwfy bn-hw Rṯdṯwn bn [... ...]
4 w-l-wzʾ ʾlmqh hwfyn ʿbd-hw
5 Whbʿṯt b-ʾmlʾ ys¹tmlʾn
6 b-ʿm-hw w-l-s¹ʿd-hmw rḍw mrʾ-
7 hmw Ns²ʾkrb Yhʾmn mlk S¹bʾ
8 bn Ḏmrʿly Ḏrḥ w-l-s¹ʿd-hmw
9 ʾlmqh nʿmtm w-wfym w-
10 mngt ṣdqm b-ʿṯtr w-Hwbs¹
11 w-ʾlmqh w-b-ḏt Ḥmym w-b-ḏt
12 Bʿdnm w-b-s²ms¹ mlkn Tnf
| 1 | for the s²ms¹ of the king Tnf, see Robin 2012 a: 16. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Whbʿṯt [... ...] 2 [... ...] he sought from Him [... ...] 3 He saved his son Rṯdṯwn from [... ...] 4 Might ʾlmqh continue to offer upon His servant 5 Whbʿṯt the favours he will seek 6 from Him. Might He grant them the goodwill of their 7 master Ns²ʾkrb Yhnʿm, king of Sabaʾ 8 son of Ḏmrʿly Ḏrḥ and might 9 ʾlmqh grant them prosperity, success, 10 good luck. By ʿṯtr, Hwbs¹, 11 ʾlmqh, by ḏt Ḥmym, by ḏt 12 Bʿdnm, by the solar deity, of the king, Tnf. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Ṣanʿāʾ, Unknown (Private collection) |
| Support type | Artefact » Base » Of statue with dedicatory inscription |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Maḥram Bilqīs |
| Ancient site | ʾwm |
| Geographical area | Maʾrib |
| Country | Yemen |
| Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of ʾlmqh bʿl ʾwm |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| al-Iryānī 1973: 8-13 | al-Iryānī, Muṭahhar 1973. Fī taʾriḫ al-Yaman. Cairo. |
| al-Iryānī 1990: 47-52 | al-Iryānī, Muṭahhar 1990. Fī-taʾrīḫ al-Yaman. Nuquš musnadiya wa-taʿliqāt. Ṣanʿāʾ: Markaz al-dirāsāt wa-l-buḥūṯ al-Yamanī. |
| Robin 2012 a: 16 | Robin, Christian J. 2012. Matériaux pour une typologie des divinités arabiques et de leurs représentations.. Pages 7-118 in Isabelle Sachet (ed.). Dieux et déesses d'Arabie. Images et représentations. Actes de la table ronde tenue au Collège de France (Paris) les 1er et 2 octobre 2007. Paris: De Boccard. [en collaboration avec Christian Julien Robin] |
| al-Qayli 2024 b: 110, 123 (photo) | al-Qayli, Mohammed Ali 2024. Nuqūš Sabaʾīya min ʿahd ʾabnāʾ al-malik al-Sabaʾī Ḏamār ʿAlī Ḏarīḥ malik Sabaʾ wa-ḏī Raydān. Raydān, 15: 66-123. |