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Costanza Odierna
Alessia Prioletta
First published

2014-12-01
DOI

10.82194/dasi-epi-7647

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Beeston Alfred F. L.
Beeston 1952: pl. III/A

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

Language

Ancient South Arabian » Sabaic » Southern Middle Sabaic

Script

Ancient South Arabian

Script typology

Monumental writing

Text direction

Right-to-left

Text appearance

Recessed

Execution technique

Incision

Measure of letters

3.8 (l. 1); 3 (l. 8)

Chronology

Period

Textual typology

Construction text

TEXT

marker

Apparatus

1	[K]ẓyn (Beeston); [L]ẓyn (Jamme).
3	hw[ḏ]yw (Beeston 1952, corrected in hw[k]yw in Beeston et al. 1982: 160); ys³f (instead of ws³f) as well as yyn (instead of wyn, l. 5), both show the transition of w into y, which is a trend of southern Sabaic.

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  Ḥẓyn ʾṣḥḥ, independent head of the family from the clan Ns¹rm, with his wife
   2  S²mrm and their children, ʾs¹dm, Dlwn, Ḥbs² and Ṯwrm, of
   3  the family ʿqrtm, constructed and repaired their house ḏ-Dhr Ḍrn and added to it
   4  a roof; and they dug, plastered and constructed a cistern and (its) irrigation system (?), and constructed (its) irrigation canals (?); and they
   5  acquired their vineyard from the family ʿrm of (the tribe) Yhbs²r, and planted their vineyard
   6  ḏ-S²bzn, and acquired from the family Khnl a tract of land of which his (grazing) full capacity is of one
   7  hundred and seventy sheep; and they purchased male and female servants. By the help of
   8  their gods and by the authority of their lords, the banū S¹mhs¹mʿ.

1	ʾys¹ nbt: " indipendent head of a family" (Beeston). According to Beeston, the term "nbt" could be considered the opposite of "wld", the former denoting a form of clan affiliation distinguished from the "wld" who were the direct descendants of the clan-head; on the contrary, "nbt" describes a person who has himself become the paterfamilias of a collateral branch of the clan. Jamme considers "nbt" as a present participle and translates it with "originating".
4	mrm: "(its) retaining wall" (Beeston); on the different meanings attributed to this noun, see Prioletta.
6	ḏ-mlʾ-hw: "sufficient for" (Beeston).
6-7	On this phrase, see also Beeston 1980 a.

Beeston 1952: 281-282	Beeston, Alfred F.L. 1952. Four Sabaean texts in the Istanbul Archaeological Museum. Le Muséon, 65: 271-283.
Jamme 1976: 92	Jamme, Albert W.F. 1976. Carnegie Museum 1974-75 Yemen Expedition. (Special Publication, 2). Pittsburgh: Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
Beeston 1980 a: 23	Beeston, Alfred F.L. 1980. Studies in Sabaic Lexicography II. Raydān, 3: 17-26.
Prioletta 2013 a: 83	Prioletta, Alessia 2013. Inscriptions from the southern highlands of Yemen. The epigraphic collections of the museums of Baynūn and Dhamār. (Arabia Antica, 8). Roma: L'«Erma» di Bretschneider.

OBJECT INFORMATION

Deposit	Istanbul, Ancient Orient Museum, 7630
Support type	Stone piece
Material	Stone
Dimensions	h. 30, w. 57.5, th. 7.6
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin and provenance. Conjectural

Modern site	Baynūn
Ancient site	Bynn
Geographical area	Khawlân
Country	Yemen
Archaeological context	Urban context: Private house Dhr Ḍrn
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Beeston 1952: 277-282, pl. III/a	Beeston, Alfred F.L. 1952. Four Sabaean texts in the Istanbul Archaeological Museum. Le Muséon, 65: 271-283.
Jamme 1976: 92-93	Jamme, Albert W.F. 1976. Carnegie Museum 1974-75 Yemen Expedition. (Special Publication, 2). Pittsburgh: Carnegie Museum of Natural History.

CSAI

Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions

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DOI

RES 4195+ RES 3438 Gl 1544