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Gr 203 Riyām 13


Bauer and Lundin 1998: photo 183

INSCRIPTION INFORMATION

LanguageAncient South Arabian » Sabaic » Central Middle Sabaic
ScriptAncient South Arabian
Script typologyMonumental writing
Text directionRight-to-left
Text appearanceRecessed
Execution techniqueIncision
Measure of letters4.5-5
Chronology
PeriodD. Conjectural
Textual typologyDedicatory text - fragmentary (conjectural)

TEXT

marker


      [... ...]
   1  [w-l s¹ʿd-hmw Tʾlb nʿm]tm w-mngt
   2  [ṣdqm w-bry ʾʾḏnm] w-mqymtm w-rḍw w-ḥẓy mrʾ-hmw Wt —
   3  [rm Yhʾmn mlk S¹]bʾ w-ḏ-Rydn bn ʾls²rḥ Yḥḍb mlk S¹b—
   4  [ʾ w-ḏ-Rydn w-l s¹ʿd-h]mw ʾṯmr w-ʾfql ṣdqm [hnʾm] ʿdy ʾrḍ-
   5  [hmw w-ms²ymt-hmw w-l ḏ]t nʿmt w-tmʿmn l-Ns²ʾkrb w-bny Btʿ w-
   6  [s²ʿb-hmw Hmdn b-Tʾlb] Rymm

Apparatus
6The integration of the name of the tribe Hmdn is arbitrary and very unlikely.

TRANSLATIONS

English

   1  [... ... may Tʾlb grant them] prosperity and good luck
   2  [and the health of faculties] and properties and the goodwill and the favour of their lord Wt-
   3  [rm Yhʾmn, the king of] Sabaʾ and ḏ-Rydn, son of ʾls²rḥ Yḥḍb, the king of Sabaʾ
   4  [and ḏ-Rydn. May He grant them] good and healthy crops and harvestings in their land
   5  [and in their fields and because] He granted past and future prosperity to Ns²ʾkrb and the family Btʿ and
   6  [their tribe Hmdn (?). By Tʾlb] Rymm.

OBJECT INFORMATION

Support typeStone piece
MaterialStone
Dimensionsh. 39, w. 49, th. 34
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ORIGIN AND PROVENANCE

Provenance
Modern siteJabal Riyām
Ancient siteTrʿt
Geographical areaArḥab
CountryYemen
FoundReemployed. In modern times
Archaeological contextReligious context: Temple of Tʾlb Rymm.
NotesReemployed in a Mosque.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bauer and Lundin 1998: 64-65, photo 183Bauer, 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]