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Ja 416 RES 4729; Ry 200


By kind permission of Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale, Rome

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic
ScriptAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Text directionRight-to-left
Text appearanceRaised
Execution techniqueIncision
Measure of letters5
Chronology
PeriodC. Conjectural

TEXT

marker


   1  Mrṯdm ʾry(m) w-[... ... S¹mʿy ṯlṯ]—
   2  n ḏ-Ḥmln bn(y)[... ...]—
   3  m w-b-s²ym-hmw (T)[ʾlb Rymm ... ... Ns²ʾkrb Yʾmn]
   4  (Yh)rḥb ml(k )[S¹bʾ w-ḏ-Rydn ... ...]

Apparatus
2-3bny[w ... ... w-b-ḏt Bʿdn]m (Jamme). However, bny[w] seems an unlikely integration in the inscriptions of period D.
3(T)[ʾlb Rymm bʿl S²ṣrm ... ... w-b-mrʾ-hmw Ns²krb Yʾmn] (Jamme).

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  Mrṯdm ʾrym and [... ...] S¹mʿy, third
   2  of Ḥmln, of the family (?) [... ...]
   3  and by their Patron Tʾlb Rymm [... ...] Ns²ʾkrb Yʾmn
   4  Yhrḥb king of S¹bʾ and ḏu-Raydān [... ...]

OBJECT INFORMATION

DepositRoma, Museo Nazionale d’Arte Orientale “Giuseppe Tucci”, inv. 13015/16027
Support typeStone piece
MaterialStone
Dimensionsh. 27.7, w. 46.5, th. 15.8
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin
Modern siteUnknown
Ancient siteUnknown
Geographical areaUnknown
CountryUnknown
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Ryckmans, Gonzague 1937: 266Ryckmans, Gonzague 1937. Inscriptions sud-arabes. Quatrième série. Le Muséon, 50: 239-268.
Ansaldi 1933: fig. 93Ansaldi, Cesare 1933. Il Yemen nella storia e nella leggenda. (Collezione di opere e di monografie a cura del Ministero delle colonie, 17). Rome: Sindacato italiano arti grafiche.
Jamme 1956 a: 27-28, pl. II/416Jamme, Albert W.F. 1956. Les antiquités sud-arabes du Museo Nazionale Romano. Monumenti antichi, 43: 1-120.
Mazzini 2012: 235, cat. 48Mazzini, Giovanni 2012. Catalogo. Iscrizioni. Pages 232-237 in Sabina Antonini, Paola D'Amore and Michael Jung (eds). Il trono della regina di Saba. Cultura e diplomazia fra Italia e Yemen. La Collezione Sudarabica del Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale. Rome: Artemide.