Hudhud
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"CIH: i/iv, pl. XXXVIII"

Text:

Translations:

1[.]ʿn Yʾzm and his sons Yḥmd [and] Yġbr of the banu S¹myʿm, 
2clients of the banu Btʿ, dedicated to their Patron Tʾlb Rymm 
3Lord of Qdmn of Dmhn a bull of bronze and a stone tablet (?) 
4so that He protects them and grants them copious crops in 
5their fields and pastures and because Tʾlb-Rymm saved 
6His servant Yḥmd from the sickness he suffered from in (or coming from?) S¹hrtn 
7and the land of Hwzn and they praised the might and power of Tʾlb Rymm 
8so that He grants them the satisfaction of their lords and their tribe 
9and protects them from harm and malice of any enemy far or 
10near and they praised Tʾlb for all the favours he granted them in his oracle 
11and they praised Tʾlb because he increased the crops(?) 
12of their fields and pastures. And this dedication took place in the month 
13Dṯʾ of the year of S¹ʿdʿṯtr son of Ḥwfʿṯt, at the termination of the eponymous office; 
14and because He saved them from the land of Ḥimyar and the ʿrbn and from every expedition 
15they made; and because He granted His servant Yḥmd two 
16men whom he slew and buried (?) at ʿṯrb and Mʿlln and because He saved him 
17from the battle field Ṭmḥn to (or in) Ḫyl; by Tʾlb Rymm.

Translation Notes:

6Beeston 1937 a hypothesizes for "bn" a partitive or distributive use ("sicknesses, partly at Srhtn, partly in the land of Hwzn").
11Beeston 1937 a notes about ʾmwrtn that "what the context would lead us to expect is something like "crops" and translates "(corn crops ?) [in]", accepting the two letters lacuna at the end of the line prospected by CIH (so probably to be restored with " b+").
13Beeston 1937 a considers Ṣwʿm the second name of Ḥwfʿṯt, while in the Sabaic Dictionary he gives for ṣwʿ-m the meaning "termination of the eponymous office". CIH translated "opus caelatum" (that is, using Beeston's words "a work in embossed metal").

Chronological

Period: D

Physical

Support: Object → Artefact → Base → Of statue with dedicatory inscription
Materials: Stone
Measures: h. 75, w. 46
Decorations:
Figurative Subjects:
Monogram Name: Yḥmd
Subject Level 1: Monogram

Linguistic

Language: Ancient South Arabian → Sabaic → Central Middle Sabaic
Alphabet: Ancient South Arabian
Script Typology: Monumental writing
Textual Typology: Dedicatory text
Writing Techniques: Incision

Spatial

Site: al-Ḥuqqa, Ṣanʿāʾ, Yemen
Ancient Name: Dmhn
Type of Site: Settlement
Deposit:
settlement: Istanbul
institution: Ancient Orient Museum
private Collection: false
identification Number: 7484

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