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Ja 652 MaMB 161
Jamme 1962 a: pl. 16
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 | 2.4-2.5 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
TEXT
1 [S²rḥbʾl ... ... w-ʾḫy-
2 hw Mrṯdm ḏ-Ḥẓrm ... ...—
3 ..](t)( mqt)wyy mrʾ-hmy S²mr
4 Yhrʿs² mlk S¹bʾ w-ḏ-Rydn
5 bn Ys¹rm Yhnʿm mlk S¹(b)—
6 ʾ w-ḏ-Rydn hqnyy mrʾ-(h)—
7 mw ʾlmqh-bʿl-ʾwm ṣlm(n)
8 ḏ-ḏhbn l-wfy mrʾ-hmy
9 S²mr Yhrʿs² mlk S¹bʾ w-
10 ḏ-Rydn w-l-wfy ʿbdy-hw S²—
11 rḥbʾl w-ʾḫy-hw Mrṯdm
12 ḏ-Ḥẓrm w-l-s¹ʿd-hmy ʾlm—
13 qh ḥẓy w-rḍw mrʾ-hmy
14 S²mr Yhrʿs² mlk S¹bʾ w-ḏ
15 Rydn w-l-ḫmr-hmy ʾlmq—
16 h-bʿl-ʾwm s¹ʿd-hmy ʾʾrḫ
17 w-mngwt ṣdqm b-ḍrm w-
18 s¹lmm w-l-mtʿn-hmy ʾlm—
19 qh bn ṭwʿ w-s²mt w-s²ṣy
20 s²nʾ-hmy w-l-nqm w-wqm ʾ—
21 lmqh kl ḏ-yḫrgn-hmy ʿ—
22 br mrʾ-hmy w-hqny ḏt—
23 n b-ywm wqh-hw mrʾ-hw S²—
24 mr mlk S¹bʾ w-ḏ-Rydn l-(h)—
25 wḍʿ w-s²rḥ b-bytn S¹lḥn
| 2-3 | Jamme: ḏ-Ḥẓrm ʿ(mrt mqt)wyy, with ʿmrt as the second name of the clan. |
| 22-23 | Stein notes that the pronoun ḏtn may be an error (Stein 2003 a: 139). |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 [S²rḥbʾl ... ... and his 2 brother Mrṯdm of Ḥẓrm ... ... ] 3 [... ...] mqtwyy of their lord S²mr 4 Yhrʿs², king of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān, 5 son of Ys¹rm Yhnʿm, king of Sabaʾ 6 and ḏu-Raydān, dedicated to their lord 7 ʾlmqh, Lord of ʾwm, the statue 8 in bronze for the safety of their lord 9 S²mr Yhrʿs², king of Sabaʾ and 10 ḏu-Radyān, and for the safety of his servants 11 S²rḥbʾl and his brother Mrṯdm 12 of Ḥẓrm, and may ʾlmqh grant them 13 the goodwill and the satisfaction of their lord 14 S²mr Yhhrʿs², king of Sabaʾ and ḏu- 15 Raydān, and may ʾlmqh, 16 Lord of ʾwm, grant them their beneficence with 17 good matters and luck in war and 18 peace, and may ʾlmqh save them 19 from the subjection and the malevolence and the malice 20 of their enemy, and may ʾlmqh punish and render submissive 21 everyone who may bring a lawsuit against them 22 before their lord, and he dedicated that 23 in the day when his lord 24 S²mr, king of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān, ordered him 25 to be stationed and act on the defensive in the palace S¹lḥn. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Artefact » Base » Of statue with dedicatory inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Dimensions | h. 64.5, w. 22.8, th. 21 |
| 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
| Jamme 1962 a: 157-158, pl. 16 | 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. |