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Costanza Odierna
Irene Rossi
First published

2015-04-12
Last revised

2019-06-06
DOI

10.82194/dasi-epi-8128

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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

Measure of letters

Chronology

Period

Textual typology

Dedicatory text

TEXT

marker

Apparatus

1-2

The integrations were proposed by Höfner (1933).

TRANSLATIONS

English

      [... ...]
   1  [... ... vassals of Brg Yhrḥb, of the family Hmdn, and]
   2  [Ṯwbn ʾs²w]ʿ, Hṯb and S¹ʿds²ms¹m and their son
   3  Hʿn Wḥyn, of the family Ḥḍrn, dedicated to
   4  their Patron Tʾlb Rymm, Lord of Gddn of the city
   5  Tʾlqm, this bull in praise because He
   6  delivered his two servants Ṯwbn and S¹ʿds²ms¹m from the emergency
   7  they faced in the region of the city Tʾlqm, and, during this
   8  emergency, He sent Ṯwbn and S¹ʿds²ms¹m and
   9  three armies initiated the hostilities against them in the open coutryside, in
  10  S¹mnm and in Ḫs²bn and in the region of their house, and Tʾlb granted
  11  them to deliver from all these armies,
  12  and they expressed gratitude to the authority and to the power of Tʾlb; and
  13  in praise because He saved them from all the
  14  emergencies of their lord Brg Yhdḥb, of the family
  15  Hmdn. And may Tʾlb grant them prosperity
  16  and proper crops and the satisfaction of their
  17  lords, of the family Hmdn. And may He protect them from the harm of
  18  the enemy. By Tʾlb Rymm.

7-9

"In this emergency the dedicants were called out, they having been attacked by three (hostile) detachments in the open countryside" (Beeston 1976 b);
"In this [emergency], Ṯwbn and Sʿds²msm were found to have been attacked by three (hostile) detachments in the open countryside" (Drewes 1979);
"und in dieser Bedrängnis schickte er den Ṯawbān und Saʿads²amsum" (Nebes 1995).

Beeston 1976 b: 57, n. 36	Beeston, Alfred F.L. 1976. Warfare in ancient South Arabian (2nd.-3rd. centuries A.D.). Qahtan. Studies in Old Arabian Epigraphy. 3. London: Luzac and Co.
Drewes 1979: 102	Drewes, Abraham J. 1979. A note on ESA ʾsy. Raydān, 2: 101-105.
Nebes 1995 a: 37-38, n. 84	Nebes, Norbert 1995. Die Konstruktionen mit /fa-/ im Altsüdarabischen. Syntaktische und epigraphische Untersuchungen. (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission, 40). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

OBJECT INFORMATION

Deposit	Wien, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Sem 671
Support type	Artefact » Base » Of statue with dedicatory inscription
Material	Stone
Dimensions	h. 65, w. 30
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin

Modern site	Unknown
Ancient site	Unknown
Geographical area	Unknown
Country	Unknown
Archaeological context	Religious context: Temple of Tʾlb Rymm bʿl Gddn ḏ-hgrn Tʾlqm
Notes	The inscription probably originates from the town named Tʾlqm.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Höfner 1933: 12-14	Höfner, Maria 1933. Die sabäischen Inschriften der südarabischen Expedition im Kunsthistorischen Museum in Wien (I). Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 40: 1-36.

CSAI

Corpus of South Arabian Inscriptions

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Last revised

DOI

RES 4193