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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 | 2.8 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Dedicatory text |
TEXT
1 ʾlʾmr Ynhb [... ...]—
2 m bnw ḏ-S¹ḥr [hqnyw mrʾ-]
3 hmw ʾlmqhw-Ṯhwn-b[ʿl-ʾwm ṣ]—
4 lmn ḏ-ḏhbn ḥmdm b-ḏ-s²[ft-hw]
5 l-ḫmr-hw wldm ḏkrm w-rʾ |
6 k-ḫmr ʿbd-hw ʾlʾmr ḏ-S¹ḥr w—
7 ld l-hw bn-hw Brlm w-rʾ k-h—
8 wfy l-mrʾ-hmw hqnyt-hw ḏ-
9 s²ft-hw w-l-zʾn ʾlmqh ḫmr-
10 hw ʾwldm ʾḏkrm w-l-ḫmr-h—
11 w wfy grybt-hmw w-l-ḫmr-
12 hmw ḥẓy w-rḍw mrʾy-hmw Ys¹r—
13 m Yhnʿm w-Ṯʾrn ʾyfʿ ʾmlk
14 S¹bʾ w-ḏ-Rydn w-Ḥḍrmt w-Ymn—
15 t w-l-ḫmr-hmw ʾṯmrm w-ʾfqlm |
16 bn ʾrḍt-hmw bn Mrb w-Ns²qm w-
17 Ns²n w-l-mtʿn-hmw bn mtʿ w-s²ṣy w-
18 tṯʿt s²nʾm w-bn ġlyt mrʾm b-ʾ—
19 lmqh-Ṯwn-bʿl-ʾwm w-b-ʿṯtr w-S¹ḥ—
20 r w-b mḍḥ-hmw Ys¹rn w-s²ms¹y-hmw
21 | bʿlty ʾwṯnm
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 ʾlʾmr Yhnb [... ... ] 2 of the family S¹ḥr, dedicated to his 3 Lord ʾlmqhw Ṯhwn, Lord of ʾwm, a statue 4 in bronze in praise because He promised him 5 to grant him a male child. In fact 6 He granted His servant ʾlʾmr of S¹ḥr a child 7 for him, his son Brlm, and indeed he offered 8 to their Lord his dedication which 9 he promised Him; may ʾlmqh grant him 10 male children, and may He grant 11 him the safety of their persons and may He grant 12 them the goodwill and the satisfaction of their two lords Ys¹rm 13 Yhnʿm and Ṯʾrn ʾyfʿ kings 14 of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān and Ḥaḍramawt and Ymnt, 15 and may He grant them fruits crops and harvests 16 from their lands from Mrb and Ns²qm and 17 Ns²n, and may He save them from the trickery and the malice and 18 the calumny of the enemy, and from the wrath of the man; by 19 ʾlmqh Ṯwn, Lord of ʾwm, and by ʿṯtr and S¹ḥr 20 and their tutelary deity Ys¹rn and their two solar deities, 21 the two Ladies of boundary marks. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Mārib |
| Support type | Artefact » Base » Of statue with dedicatory inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Dimensions | h. 85.8, w. 32.8, th. 25.5 |
| 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: 168-169 | 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: 494 | Ryckmans, Jacques 1966. Himyaritica 2. Le Muséon, 79: 475-500. |