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Ja 417 RES 4727; Ry 198


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 appearanceRecessed
Execution techniqueIncision
Measure of letters3
Chronology
PeriodD. Conjectural
Textual typologyDedicatory text - fragmentary

GENERAL NOTES

This is a dedicatory text with legal content.

TEXT

marker


      [... ...-hm]—
   1  (w) b-ms¹ʾl-hw [... ... l]-
   2  wfy grybt-hmw w-l w(f)[y... ...]-
   3  hmw w-kwn ḏn wtfn b-ḫrf Ḥ(y)[wm bn ʾ—
   4  b]krb bn Ḥzfrm w-Wdm f-hwfy [ʾdm-hw]
   5  (bn)y ḏ-Yqnʿm w-ʾs¹d b-ʿm-hmw w-hmw [s¹t]—
   6  wfyw ḏn wtfn l-hwfy Wdm ʾdm-hw b—
   7  (n)y ḏ-Yqnʿm w-ʾs¹d b-ʿm-hmw b-kl ʾmlʾ
   8  (y)s¹tmlʾnn b-ʿm-hw w-l s¹ʿd-hmw ʾ(ṯ)[m](r)
   9  [ṣ](dqm) bn kl ʾrḍ-hmw b-Wdm ḏ-S²(w)[..]

Apparatus
0-1[... ... ḥgn wqh-hmw] (Jamme).
1[.](t)[. l-wfy-hmw w-l] (Jamme).
2w(f)[y grybt ʾwld] (Jamme).
3-4Ḥ(y)[wʾm bn] (Yk)rb (Jamme). However, cf. e.g. YM 11726 and Mon.script.sab. 12 for the proposed restoration of the eponym's name.
4End: [ʾṣrb or ṣrbt] (Jamme).
5-6[s¹t]wfyw (Jamme).
8-9ʾṯmr[m ṣ]dqm (Jamme restores the mimation on the basis of the space on the stone).

TRANSLATIONS

English

      [... ...]
   1  in His oracle [... ...] for
   2  the safety of their persons and the safety of their [... ...]
   3  and this act of concession took place in the year of Ḥy[wm son of
   4  ʾb]krb of the banū Ḥzfrm and so Wdm protected [His servants,]
   5  descendants of ḏ-Yqnʿm, and those who are with them, and they
   6  accomplished this act of concession, so that Wdm may protect His servants,
   7  descendants of ḏ-Yqnʿm, and those who are with them in all the favours
   8  they will seek from Him and may He grant them abundant
   9  crops from all their land; by Wdm ḏ-S²w[..]

OBJECT INFORMATION

DepositRoma, Museo Nazionale d’Arte Orientale “Giuseppe Tucci”, inv. 13007/16019
Support typeStone piece
MaterialStone
Dimensionsh. 39.5, w. 33.5, th. 7
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin
Modern siteUnknown
Ancient siteUnknown
Geographical areaUnknown
CountryUnknown
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Ryckmans, Gonzague 1937: 263-264Ryckmans, Gonzague 1937. Inscriptions sud-arabes. Quatrième série. Le Muséon, 50: 239-268.
Ansaldi 1933: fig. 91Ansaldi, 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: 29-34, pl. II/417Jamme, Albert W.F. 1956. Les antiquités sud-arabes du Museo Nazionale Romano. Monumenti antichi, 43: 1-120.
Mazzini 2012: 234, cat. 46Mazzini, 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.