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Cristina Pappalardo
Alessandra Avanzini
First published

2021-03-26
DOI

10.82194/dasi-epi-6212

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Robin and Bāfaqīh 1980: Pl. 2

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

1.8

Chronology

Period

Textual typology

Dedicatory text

TEXT

marker

Apparatus

8	Instead of writing b-ḏt mtʿ, the scribe writes b-ḏtʿ. He has passed, by haplography, from the first to the second t.
9-11	A previous text is below our text.
14	The scribe wrote wrongly: ʾḫhyw instead of ʾḫy-hw.
16	w-ls¹n-h is probably another scribe's mistake for w-ls¹n-hw; see Stein 2003 a: 137 and n. 51.

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  Rṯd]ʾlw [... ... dedicated to ʾlmqh Ṯhwn],
   2  the Lord of ʾwm, this statue [... ... in praise because]
   3  ʾlmqh, the Lord of ʾwm, granted him his satisfaction in all the favours
   4  he asked from Him; may ʾlmqh continue to grant satisfaction to His servant
   5  in all the favours he will ask from Him; may He save his two lords
   6  ʾls²rḥ Yḥḍb and his brother Yʾzl Byn, the two kings
   7  of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydan, sons of Frʿm Ynhb, the king of Sabaʾ; and
   8  he praised (Him), because He saved the body of His servant Rṯdʾlw from an amount of
   9  maladies and illnesses that afflicted him; and he praised (Him) because saved His servant
  10  from the unsaddling of the horse, that unsaddled him in Ṣnʿw; may ʾlmqh continue
  11  to save His servant from bad affairs and may He grant him
  12  the safety of his vassals and his children in the city S²bmm and may ʾlmqh
  13  grant him the favour and the goodwill of his two lords ʾls²rḥ
  14  Yḥḍb and his brother Yʾzl Byn, the two kings of Sabaʾ
  15  and ḏu-Raydan; may ʾlmqh grant him the safety for him of his hand
  16  and his tongue; may He deliver him from the maleficence and the malice of (any) enemy. By
  17  ʾlmqh, the Lord of ʾwm.

OBJECT INFORMATION

Deposit	Bayḥān, Museum, 3
Support type	Artefact » Base » Of statue with dedicatory inscription
Material	Stone
Dimensions	h. 44; w. 24; th. 14
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin

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

Robin and Bāfaqīh 1980: 91-97, pl. 2	Bāfaqīh, Muḥammad ʿA. and Robin, Christian J. 1980. Inscriptions inédites du Maḥram Bilqīs (Mārib) au musée de Bayḥān. Raydān, 3: 83-112.
Nebes 1987: 92	Nebes, Norbert 1987. Zur Konstruktion von Subjekt und Objekt abhängiger Infinitive in Sabäischen. Pages 75-98 in Christian J. Robin and Muḥammad ʿA. Bāfaqīh (eds). Ṣayhadica. Recherches sur les inscriptions de l'Arabie préislamique offertes par ses collègues au professeur A.F. L. Beeston. (Arabie préislamique, 1). Paris: Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner.
Stein 2003 a: 137, n. 51	Stein, Peter 2003. Untersuchungen zur Phonologie und Morphologie des Sabäischen. (Epigraphische Forschungen auf der Arabischen Halbinsel, 3). Rahden: Marie Leidorf GmbH / Westf.: Marie Leidorf GmbH.

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DOI

BR-M. Bayḥān 3 MuB 3