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RES 4767 RES 3687 bis; Gl 453


INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic
ScriptAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Text directionRight-to-left

TEXT

marker


      [... ...]
   1  [... ...] S¹bʾ w-ḏ-Rydn [bn] Ḏmrʿly [... ...]
   2  [... ...]s¹n w-ʾbrḍ yḏbḥnn [... ...]
   3  [... ...]s¹ṭ ṣrḥn w-hmy [ṣ]ḥ hʾ ḏbḥ[... ...]
   4  [... ...]y(g)zzn ḏ-hwfr-hw [... ...]
   5  [... ...](m) w-(hmy yʿrb) [... ...]

Apparatus
3M. Höfner (1938) reads (k)ḥ, but in the inscription Ghul-Mārib 1,3 (Bron 1992: 69): w-hmy ʾl ṣḥ hʾḏbḥn "et si cette vistime n'est pas sans tache".

TRANSLATIONS

French

      
   1  [... ...] (roi de) Saba ed Dhû-Raydân, [fils de] Dhamarʿly [... ...]
   2  [... ...] et les petites quantités (?) qu'il immolera [... ...]
   3  [... ...] ce sacrifice [... ...]
   4  [... ...] destine ce qu'il lui produit comme fruit [... ...]
   5  [... ...] et eux deux donnent en gage (?) [... ...].

English

   1  [... ...] Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydãn, son of Ḏmrʿly, [... ...]
   2  [... ...] and the sacrifices that they sacrifice [... ...]
   3  [... ...] the (cult) building and if that victime is without stain [... ...]
   4  [... ...] he assigns property rights he who cultivated that [... ...]
   5  [... ...] and they two offer [... ...].
4Beeston et alii 1982: 157 translate hwfr "perform pilgrimage".

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeStone piece
MaterialStone
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Provenance
Modern siteMaʾrib
Ancient siteMryb / Mrb
Geographical areaMaʾrib
CountryYemen
FoundReemployed. In modern times
NotesReemployed in a modern house of Mārib.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Höfner 1938: 11Höfner, Maria 1938. Die Inschriften aus Glaser Tagebuch XI (Mārib). Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 45: 7-37.
Bron 1992: 69-70Bron, François 1992. Mémorial Mahmud al-Ghul. Inscriptions sudarabiques. Paris: Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner / Sanʿāʾ: Centre français d'études yéménites.