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Ja 853 D MaN 5


INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic
ScriptAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Text directionRight-to-left
Text appearanceRecessed
Execution techniqueIncision
Chronology
PeriodC
Textual typologyDedicatory text
Royal inscriptionYes

GENERAL NOTES

Same text of Ja 853 A-C, E-F, CIH 573 and Gl 756. Ca. 80-100 CE.

TEXT

marker


   1  Ns²ʾkrb Yhʾmn mlk S¹bʾ bn Ḏmrʿly Ḏrḥ hqny s²ms¹-hw
   2  Tnf bʿlt Ġḍrn ʾrbʿtn w-ʿs²rnhn[ʾ]ṣlmn l-wfy-hmw w-w—
   3  fy bytn S¹lḥn w-ʾbʿl-hw w-mlk-hmw w-l s¹ʿd-hmw bry
   4  ʾʾḏnm w-mqymtm w-l-wḍʿ w-ṯbr w-mnʿ w-ʾḫrn kl ḍr-hm—
   5  w w-s²nʾ-hmw b-ʿṯtr w-ʾlmqh w-b-s²ms¹-hmw Tnf bʿlt Ġḍrn

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  Ns²ʾkrb Yhʾmn, king of Sabaʾ, son of Ḏmrʿly Ḏrḥ, dedicated to his Solar deity
   2  Tnf, the Lady of Ġḍrn, twenty-four statues for their well-being and
   3  the well-being of the house S¹lḥn and its lords and their property. and may She grant the prosperity
   4  of their faculties and material resources, and may She humiliate and destroy and fight off and repel all their enemy
   5  and their ill-wishers. By ʿṯtr and ʾlmqh and by their Solar deity Tnf, the Lady of Ġḍrn.

OBJECT INFORMATION

DepositMārib
Support typeStone piece
MaterialStone
Dimensionsh. 31.5, w. 60.5
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Provenance
Modern siteMaʾrib
Ancient siteMryb / Mrb
Geographical areaMaʾrib
CountryYemen
FoundReemployed
Archaeological context: The object was reused in the eastern external wall of Mārib fortress (nâṣerah).
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Jamme 1962 a: 269-270Jamme, Albert W.F. 1962. Sabaean Inscriptions from Maḥram Bilqîs (Mârib). (Publications of the American Foundation for the Study of Man, 3). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press.