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Jabal Riyām 2006-28 Gl 1213; Gr 198


Arbach and Schiettecatte 2017: 193, fig. 11
By kind permission of Jérémie Schiettecatte

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic
ScriptAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Text directionRight-to-left
Text appearanceRecessed
Execution techniqueIncision
Chronology
PeriodD. Conjectural
Textual typologyDedicatory text - fragmentary

GENERAL NOTES

Gr 198 does not provide the edition of the text.

TEXT

marker


      [... ...]
   1  [...]mn [...h]mw T[ʾlb w-]
   2  [b-ḏ]t s¹ʿd-hw brw-hw ʾs¹ʾr w-b-ḏt y(s²)[f]
   3  ʾwldm ʾḏkrm hnʾm w-l-s¹ʿd-hm[w]
   4  rḍ(w) ʾmrʾ-hmw bny Hmdn w-l s¹ʿd
   5  [...](y) ʾrḍ-hmw w-ms²ymtm w-
   6  [... s²](ṣy) s²nʾm w-b-mqm s²[y—
   7  m-hmw Tʾlb Rymm]

TRANSLATIONS

French

   1  … … …] Ta[ʾlab et]
   2  parce qu’Il lui a accordé son fils Asʾar et pour qu’Il protège
   3  des enfants mâles bien portants et pour qu’Il leur accorde
   4  la satisfaction de leurs seigneurs du lignage de Hamdān et pour qu’Il accorde
   5  … leur territoire et leur champ et
   6  … la malveillance d’un ennemi. Et par la puissance de leur
   7  [seigneur Taʾlab Riyāmum].
Arbach and Schiettecatte 2017: 193, fig. 11Arbach, Mounir and Schiettecatte, Jérémie 2017. Inscriptions sabéennes du Jabal Riyām (Yémen) et nouvel éclairage sur les rois de Sabaʾ au IIe siècle de l’ère chrétienne. Semitica et Classica, 10: 179-193. 2019/10/01; https://doi.org/10.1484/J.SEC.5.114953.

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeStone piece
MaterialStone
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Origin
Modern siteJabal Riyām
Ancient siteTrʿt
Geographical areaArḥab
CountryYemen
FoundReemployed. In modern times
Archaeological contextReligious context: Temple of Tʾlb Rymm
NotesThe inscription has been seen and photographed inside a courtyard of a private house in the village of Riyām.
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CULTURAL NOTES

The banū Hamdān is the main lineage name of the tribe Ḥāshid, which constituted, with the banū Bataʿ, a royal Sabaean dinasty.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bauer and Lundin 1998: 63, fig. 178Bauer, Gleb M. and Lundin (=Loundine), Avraam G. 1998. Pamjatniki Drevnej Istorii i Kultury. Južnaja Aravija. Part 2: Epigraficheskie pamjiatniki drevnego Jemena. 2. St.-Petersburg: Zentr "Peterburgskoe vostokovedenie". [Akademia nauk, Institut Vostokovedenija, Sankt-Peterburgskiy filial]
Arbach and Schiettecatte 2017: 193, fig. 11Arbach, Mounir and Schiettecatte, Jérémie 2017. Inscriptions sabéennes du Jabal Riyām (Yémen) et nouvel éclairage sur les rois de Sabaʾ au IIe siècle de l’ère chrétienne. Semitica et Classica, 10: 179-193. 2019/10/01; https://doi.org/10.1484/J.SEC.5.114953.