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MNAO 10326
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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 | Dedicatory text - fragmentary (conjectural) |
TEXT
1 [... ... ]Yhṯb bn ʿ(ly)n w-Ḏḫrm((Ḏḫrm))( )[.]—
2 [... ... ]Bḥḍm ʾdm b(n)y (S¹)ḫymm
3 [... ... hqny s²ym-h]mw Tʾlb Rymm bʿl Kb—
4 [dm ... ... ]l-ḏt hws²ʿ Tʾlb Rym(m)
5 [... ... ʾ]lkrb l-rʾy l-hw ʾmr
6 [... ...]-hmw w-hgbʾn-hmw ʿdy b—
7 [... ...](h)gbʾn l-ʾdm-hw bn(y) B—
8 [ḥḍm ... ...]
| 1 | Garbini interprets ʿlyn w-ḏ-Ḫrm(m) as lineage names. |
TRANSLATIONS
| English | |
1 [... ...] Yhṯb descendant of ʿlyn and Ḏḫrm 2 [... ...] Bḥḍm servants of the bānū S¹ḫymm 3 [... ...] dedicated to their Patron Tʾlb Rymm Lord of Kbdm 4 [... ...] so that Tʾlb Rymm may grant 5 [... ...] ʾlkrb to give him the oracular vision (?) 6 [... ...] them and make them return (?) to 7 [... ...] make return (?) to his servants the bānū 8 Bḥḍm [... ...] |
| 6,7 | The sense of the lines is very uncertain, due to the several meanings of the verb hgbʾ: make return, transfer, render justice, restore. |
OBJECT INFORMATION
| Deposit | Roma, Museo Nazionale d’Arte Orientale “Giuseppe Tucci”, MNAO 10326/11520 |
| Support type | Artefact » Base » Of statue with dedicatory inscription |
| Material | Stone |
| Dimensions | h. 29.8, w. 20.7, th. 12.5 |
| Link to object record |
ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE
| Modern site | Shibām al-Ghirās / Shibām Sukhaym |
| Ancient site | S²bmm |
| Geographical area | Banī Ḥushaysh |
| Country | Yemen |
| Archaeological context | Religious context: Temple of Tʾlb Rymm bʿl Kbdm |
| Link to site record |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| Garbini 1971 c: 25-30, fig. 1 | Garbini, Giovanni 1971. Iscrizione sabea nel Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale in Roma. Arte Orientale in Italia, 1: 25-30. |
| Mazzini 2012: 237, cat. 52 | Mazzini, 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. |