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Gl 1361 A 335


J. M. Solá Solé
Solá Solé 1964: pl. XI/1

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic
ScriptAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Text directionRight-to-left
Measure of letters3
Chronology
PeriodC. Conjectural
Textual typologyDedicatory text - fragmentary (conjectural)

TEXT

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      [... ...]
   1  [... ...] (l)-(h)ḥḍrn Tʾlb b-S²hr[n ...
   2  ...]b fqḥm w-ṯlṯ blṭm ḏ-rḍym w-l [...
   3  ...]w y(ḥ)mln wrqn mfrʿn w-s¹t[...
   4  ... ](b)qr-hmw b-wrḫ Ṣydm f-l yḏ[bḥn
   5  ...] ʾmsḥn f-l yʾtyn l-ḥṣmn [...
   6  ...]l ylfynn b-ḍrn f-l ys¹bʾ(n)n( )[...
   7  ...](k)rm l-ḏ-ʾl y[.]m[... ...]

Apparatus
1The infinitive hḥḍrn may be introduced by l-, even if the reading is not certain. For Solá Solé l- has here an optative meaning: "er soll bringen dem Tʾlb" (1964: 37).
The name S²hrn is not known.

TRANSLATIONS

English

      
   1  [… …] in order to perform a pilgrimage to Tʾlb in S²hr[n …]
   2  […] half and three good blṭ-coins and […]
   3  […] he will offer rich crops and […]
   4  […] their cattle in the month Ṣydm, so that he can sacrifice
   5  […] ʾms¹ḥn, and he could bring the tax (?) […]
   6  […] so that they could make war, and they could carry out a military expedition […]
   7  […] for that [… …]
5ʾms¹ḥn may be a personal name.
In CIH 290, 5 l-ḥṣmn occurs together with yʾtyn.

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeStone piece
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin and provenance
Modern siteJabal Riyām
Ancient siteTrʿt
Geographical areaArḥab
CountryYemen
Archaeological contextReligious context: Temple of Tʾlb b-S²hrn
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Solá Solé 1964: 36-38, pl. XI/1Solá Solé, Josep M. 1964. Inschriften aus Riyām. Sammlung Eduard Glaser. 4. (Sitzungsberichte der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 243/4). Vienna: Böhlaus.
Nebes 1995 a: 65 (190-192)Nebes, Norbert 1995. Die Konstruktionen mit /fa-/ im Altsüdarabischen. Syntaktische und epigraphische Untersuchungen. (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission, 40). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.