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Ja 751 MaMB 283; ZI 21


INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic
ScriptAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Text directionRight-to-left
Text appearanceRecessed
Execution techniqueIncision
Measure of letters2.5
Chronology
PeriodD
Textual typologyDedicatory text

TEXT

marker


   1  ʾbḥlk ḏt Ḏbyn h—
   2  q[nyt] ʾlmqh-Ṯhwn-b—
   3  ʿl-ʾwm ṣlmtn ḏt ḏhbn
   4  ḏt b-hw ḥmdt ḫyl w-mq—
   5  m ʾlmqh b-ḏt s²rḥ w-mtʿn
   6  grb-hw b-hry hryt b-ḫr—
   7  f S¹mhkrb bn ʾbkrb b-[k]—
   8  n ḥmdt((bn Ḥḏmt)) bn ḫbṭn kwn b-
   9  hwt ḫrfn w-ʾlmqh-Ṯhwn-b—
  10  ʿl-ʾwm f-l yzʾn s²rḥ w-m—
  11  tʿn grb ʾmt-hw ʾbḥlk
  12  ḏt Ḏbyn b-ʾlmqh-Ṯhwn-bʿ—
  13  l-ʾwm

Apparatus
7-8Variant by Preissler.

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  ʾbḥlk, she of Ḏbyn,
   2  dedicated to ʾlmqh Ṯhwn,
   3  Lord of ʾwm, this female statue in bronze
   4  whereby she praised the might and the power
   5  of ʾlmqh, because He saved and protected
   6  her person from the the very cold weather she suffered in the
   7  year of S¹mhkrb, son of ʾbkrb, when
   8  she praised (to be saved) from the epidemic, which was
   9  in that year; may ʾlmqh Ṯhwn, Lord
  10  of ʾwm, continue to preserve and save
  11  the person of His servant ʾbḥlk,
  12  she of Ḏbyn. By ʾlmqh Ṯhwn, Lord
  13  of ʾwm.

OBJECT INFORMATION

DepositMārib
Support typeArtefact » Base » Of statue with dedicatory inscription
MaterialStone
Dimensionsw. 20.6, th. 17
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin
Modern siteMaḥram Bilqīs
Ancient siteʾwm
Geographical areaMaʾrib
CountryYemen
Archaeological contextReligious context: Temple of ʾlmqh bʿl ʾwm
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Jamme 1962 a: 223Jamme, 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.
Beeston 1972 e: 353Beeston, Alfred F.L. 1972. 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. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 35/2: 349-353.
ʿInān 1976: 233-234ʿInān, Zaid b. ʿA 1976. Taʾriḫ ḥaḍāra al-Yaman al-qadīm. Cairo.
Preissler 1979Preissler H. 1979. Die mittelsabäische Weihinschrift Jamme 751. Altorientalische Forschungen, 6: 273-274.
Jamme 1985: 225-229Jamme, Albert W.F. 1985. Miscellanées d'ancient arabe XIV. Washington. 2025/04/17; https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.38250301. [Privately printed]
Nebes 1995 a: 31Nebes, Norbert 1995. Die Konstruktionen mit /fa-/ im Altsüdarabischen. Syntaktische und epigraphische Untersuchungen. (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission, 40). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.