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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 | 4.8 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
TEXT
1 Lḥyʿṯt ʾṣḥḥl bn Yhʿn h—
2 qny ʾlmqh Ṯhwn bʿl ʾwm
3 ṣlmn ḥg-n wqh-hw b-ms¹ʾl-hw ḥ—
4 mdm b-ḏt hwfy ʾlmqh ʿbd-hw
5 Lḥyʿṯt bn Yhʿn b-ʾmlʾ s¹tm—
6 lʾ b-ʿm-hw w-l-ḏt yzʾn ʾlmqh b—
7 ʿl ʾwm ṣdq w-hwfyn ʿbd-hw Lḥ—
8 yʿṯt bn Yhʿn b-kl ʾmlʾ ys¹tm—
9 lʾn w-ntḍʿn b-ʿm-hw w-l-s¹ʿd ʾlm—
10 qh bʿl ʾwm ʿbd-hw Lḥyʿṯt nʿm—
11 t[m] w-mngyt ṣdqm w-ḥẓy w-rḍw m—
12 rʾy-hmw S¹ʿds²ms¹m ʾs¹rʿ w-bny-hw
13 [M]rṯdm Yhḥmd mlky S¹bʾ w-ḏ-Ry—
14 dn bny ʾls²rḥ Yḥḍb mlk S¹bʾ
15 w-ḏ-Rydn w-l-ḏt nʿmt w-tnʿmn l-h—
16 mw w-l-byt-hmw w-l-s¹ʿd-hmw ʾlmqh
17 ʾṯmr w-ʾfql ṣdqm bn kl ʾrḍt-
18 hmw w-l ḫryn ʾlmqh ʿbd-hw Lḥ—
19 yʿṯt w-bny Yhʿn bn bʾs¹tm
20 w-nkym w-nḍʿ w-s²ṣy s²nʾm b-ʿṯtr
21 w-Hwbs¹ w-ʾlmqh w-b-ḏt [Ḥmym w-]
22 b-ḏt Bʿdnm w-b-s²ms¹ mlkn Tnf
| 9 | Jamme: ntbʿn. Ntḍʿn proposed by Beeston et al. 1982: 92, while previously Ryckmans (1966: 484) had hypothetically suggested to analyse ntbʿn as a N-stem from TBʿ "ask with insistence, reiterate". |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 Lḥyʿṯt ʾṣḥḥl, of the family Yhʿn, 2 dedicated to ʾlmqh Ṯhwn, Lord of ʾwm, 3 the statue, as He ordered him in His oracle, in 4 praise because ʾlmqh fulfilled His servant 5 Lḥyʿṯt of the family Yhʿn in the favours he requested 6 from Him, and may ʾlmqh, Lord of ʾwm, 7 continue to gratify and fulfill His servant 8 Lḥyʿṯt of the family Yhʿn in all the favours he will 9 request and implore from Him, and may ʾlmqh, 10 Lord of ʾwm, grant His servant Lḥyʿṯt prosperity 11 and good luck, and the goodwill and the satisfaction of his 12 lords S¹ʿds²ms¹m ʾs¹rʿ and his son 13 Mrṯdm Yhḥmd, kings of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān, 14 son of ʾls²rḥ Yḥḍb, king of Sabaʾ, 15 and ḏu-Raydān, and for what has been and will be favourable to 16 them and for their house, and may ʾlmqh grant them 17 good crops and harvests from all their lands, 18 and may ʾlmqh deliver His servant 19 Lḥyʿṯt and the family Yhnʿn from any evil 20 and mischief and the malice and the maleficence of any enemy. By ʿṯtr 21 and Hwbs¹ and ʾlmqh and by ḏt [Ḥmym and] 22 by ḏt Bʿdnm and by the solar deity of the king Tnf. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Artefact » Base » Of statue with dedicatory inscription |
| Material | Stone |
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Maḥram Bilqīs |
| Ancient site | ʾwm |
| Geographical area | Maʾrib |
| Country | Yemen |
| Found | Reemployed. In ancient times |
| Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of ʾlmqh Ṯhwn bʿl ʾwm |
| Notes | Re-used in the western pavement. |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Jamme 1962 a: 131 | 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 1966: 484 | Ryckmans, Jacques 1966. Himyaritica 2. Le Muséon, 79: 475-500. |
| Beeston et al. 1982 (=SD): 92 | Beeston, Alfred F.L., al-Ghūl, Maḥmūd ʿA., Müller, Walter W. and Ryckmans, Jacques 1982. Sabaic Dictionary (English-French-Arabic). Dictionnaire Sabéen (anglais-français-arabe). Louvain-la-Neuve: Éditions Peeters / Beirut: Libraire du Liban. |