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Cristina Pappalardo
First published

2014-09-18
DOI

10.82194/dasi-epi-5966

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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

Measure of letters

4.9

Chronology

Period

Textual typology

Dedicatory text

GENERAL NOTES

Second half of the 2nd century CE.

TEXT

marker

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  Yrm ʾymn and his brother Brg
   2  Yhrḥb and his son ʿlhn, sons of
   3  ʾws¹lt Rfs²n, of the family Hmdn, ʾqwl of the tribe
   4  S¹mʿy, the third of ḏ-Ḥs²dm, dedicated to
   5  ʾlmqh Ṯhwn, Lord of ʾwm, the statue, in praise because
   6  ʾlmqh aided and favoured His servants, the family
   7  Hmdn and their tribe Ḥs²dm, in success, in killing
   8  and satisfactory booty in all the battles in which
   9  they participated during the wars which occurred between the kings of Sabaʾ
  10  and the family of ḏu-Raydān; and in all the battles in which
  11  they intervened in war against groups of Arabs on the
  12  frontier of the tribe Ḥs²dm, and in certain territories of the
  13  bedouins, the Arabs who had committed offenses against their lords, the kings
  14  of Sabaʾ and against some territories of the tribe of the king of Sabaʾ;
  15  and because ʾlmqh has favoured them and has granted to them
  16  all the favours they asked Him for, and that
  17  ʾlmqh may continue to bestow upon them all the favours they shall
  18  seek Him for. He may grant to them the favour and the goodwill
  19  of their lord Whbʾl Yḥz, king of Sabaʾ, and He may grant
  20  to them healthy male children and perfect crops
  21  and harvests in all their valleys and in their lands,
  22  and He may preserve them from misfortunes, maleficence and malice of the enemy;
  23  ʾlmqh may remove and destroy their enemy and their ill-wisher.
  24  By ʿṯtr and ʾlmqh and their Patron Tʾlb Rymm.

OBJECT INFORMATION

Deposit	Mārib
Support type	Artefact » Base » Of statue with dedicatory inscription
Material	Stone
Dimensions	h. 177.5, w. 45.1, th. 36.5
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin and provenance

Modern site	Maḥram Bilqīs
Ancient site	ʾwm
Geographical area	Maʾrib
Country	Yemen
Archaeological context	Religious context: Temple of ʾlmqh bʿl ʾwm
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Jamme 1962 a: 37-39, 280-281, 287	Jamme, Albert W.F. 1962. Sabaean Inscriptions from Maḥram Bilqîs (Mârib). (Publications of the American Foundation for the Study of Man, 3). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press.
Ryckmans, Jacques 1964 b: 91	Ryckmans, Jacques 1964. Review of Jamme, Albert W.F. 1962. Sabaean Inscriptions from Maḥram Bilqîs (Mârib). (Publications of the American Foundation for the Study of Man, 3). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press. Bibliotheca Orientalis, 21: 90-94.
Beeston 1976 b: 22-23	Beeston, Alfred F.L. 1976. Warfare in ancient South Arabian (2nd.-3rd. centuries A.D.). Qahtan. Studies in Old Arabian Epigraphy. 3. London: Luzac and Co.
Robin 1991-1993 c: 74, 78	Robin, Christian J. 1991-1993 [1992]. La pénétration des Arabes nomades au Yémen. Pages 71-88 in Christian J. Robin (ed.). L'Arabie antique de Karibʾîl à Mahomet. Nouvelles données sur l'histoire des Arabes grâces aux inscriptions. (Revue du Monde Musulman et de la Mediterranée, 61). Aix-en-Provence: Édisud.

CSAI

Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions

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First published

DOI

Ja 561bis MaMB 204