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Gr 3
Grjaznevič 1978: fig. 3
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 | ||
| Chronology |
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| Textual typology | Construction text |
TEXT
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1 Ḫywn ʿs²ry ʾʾblm l-ʿwrm l-gwzt hyt ms¹qftn w-hqs²bw ṯbt (S²ms¹)m w-(s²ʾmw) w-ḫṣb[... ...]
2 w-s¹qf ʾḥd ʾhlm b-ʾrḍt-hmw ḏ-ʿrn Ṯnyny w-gnʾw w-ṣyḥn w-hwzʾn ʿbr-hmw [... ...]
3 ẓlln w-nqzw w-ṣll ṯny grnn l-hyt ʾrḍtn w-tqyḍw w-qny ʾrḍ bny S¹ṭrn ḏ-Qm b-[... ...]—
4 bʾn ḏ-thʿn bn Nʿṭm ʿdy Mrnwtn w-tnḥlw w-ḫtmrn ʾḥt bʾrm l-bny ʾlz brʾ[... ...]((b-rʾ[... ...]))
5 (hmy w)-(hklw w)-(hqs²bn l)-(mṣrʿy) w-s¹lf byt-hmw ʾ(kylm ḏhbm) w-ʾz(yy)m frznm w-ʿḏ(b)[w ... ...]
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
[... ...] 1 Ḫywn twenty camels on loan (or: in total) for the transport (or: the topping off) of this portico. And they built the sanctuary (or: throne) of S²ms¹m, and they bought and cut [... ...] 2 and roofed a covered cistern (?) on their land near the citadel Ṯnyny, and they built the walls and levelled (or: laid out plantations) and enlarged their terraced fields [... ...] 3 covering. And they dug and covered with stone two threshing floors for this land. And they exchanged and acquired the land of the banū S¹ṭrn ḏ-Qm in [... ...] 4 [... ...] that stretches from Nʿṭm up to Mrnwtn. And they granted and conceded a well to the banū ʾlz [... ...] 5 [... ...] the two. And they completed and finished off for the door-flaps and the door-jamb (or: façade) of their house the ties (or: ornamental studs) in bronze and the corner-pieces (or: clamps) in wood and they repaired [... ...] |
| 1 | lʿwrm: "loan" for Lundin, but Beeston suggests a possible reading variant gʿwrm "in su total, in all" (cf. gʿr "assemble"). gwzt: Beeston suggests that it is a "ceremony to mark the completion of a building", beacuse the root GWZ implies a meaning of "passing some kind of limits", and not simply "moving". ṯbt: according to Robin, the word means "throne" |
| 2 | ʾhlm: Lundin translates as "roofing"; Beeston at al. 1982 "covered cistern (?)". |
| 4 | Beeston prefers a passive rendering of the verbs tnḥlw w-ḫtmrn: "were granted and conceded (the use of) one well belonging to the Bany ʾlz". |
| 5 | For the translation of the line, see Beeston. |
| Grjaznevič 1978: 19 | Grjaznevič, Petr A. 1978. Materiali ekspedicii P.A. Grjaznevičia 1966-1967 gg. Južnaja Aravija. Pamjiatniki Drevnej Istorii i Kultury. 1. Moscow: Glavnaja redakzija vostočnoj literatury. |
| Beeston et al. 1982 (=SD) | 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. |
| Beeston 1979 b: 92-93, 95 | Beeston, Alfred F.L. 1979. Studies in Sabaic Lexicography I. Raydān, 2: 89-100. |
| Robin 2012 a: 64 | Robin, Christian J. 2012. Matériaux pour une typologie des divinités arabiques et de leurs représentations.. Pages 7-118 in Isabelle Sachet (ed.). Dieux et déesses d'Arabie. Images et représentations. Actes de la table ronde tenue au Collège de France (Paris) les 1er et 2 octobre 2007. Paris: De Boccard. [en collaboration avec Christian Julien Robin] |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Support type | Architectural structure |
| Material | Stone |
| Dimensions | h. 45, w. 160 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Nāʿiṭ |
| Ancient site | Nʿṭm |
| Geographical area | Rayda |
| Country | Yemen |
| Found | Reemployed. In modern times |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Grjaznevič 1978: 19-20, fig. 3 | Grjaznevič, Petr A. 1978. Materiali ekspedicii P.A. Grjaznevičia 1966-1967 gg. Južnaja Aravija. Pamjiatniki Drevnej Istorii i Kultury. 1. Moscow: Glavnaja redakzija vostočnoj literatury. |