DASI ID: ID: 3949
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"Calvet and Robin 1997: 161, cat. 81"
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Translations:
1[... ...] and S¹ʿdtʾlb Yhs²ʿ and their sons Mḥmdm 2[... ...] descendants of Ms²ʿrn dedicated to their Patron Tʾlb Rymm 3Master of Ḥdṯnn [... ... and] upon it a statue in bronze, in praise because [Tʾlb] granted 4[... ...] S¹ʿdtʾlb Yhs²ʿ descendant of Ms²ʿrn from all the expeditions, battles and 5fights [... ...] Mrb, and his protection (or: guard) when they slaughtered the garrison of the Himyarites in the 6city [... ...], and fortified themselves in the city of Ḍhr, and there besieged them the kings 7Ys¹rm Yhnʿm and S²mr Yhrʿs², kings of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān and all the army of Ḥimyar 8[... ...] the city of Ḍhr, and there they invested them until they died .. 9[... ...] their two lords Yrm and Brg descendants of Btʿ and Hamdān concluded a pact 10[... ...] the ʾrydn, S¹fln, the bedouins of Mrb and Ḏʾbn ʾr- 11s²m [... ...] and after them (or: thereafter) they helped their two lords S²fʿṯt ʾs²wʿ and Yrm ʾy- 12mn [... ...] and they overtook them at Kwrnhn, and seized their captives 13[... ...] three hundred and twenty men were killed, and as for the ʾrydn, they besieged 14[... ...] all the towers of Rydt and the fortresses of the ʾrydn surrendered and 15[... ...] the two [hills ?] Ḍbʿm and Bḍʿtm, and they came back from all those expeditions 16[... ...] and a booty which satisfied them, and in praise because they repulsed and 17[... ...] the tower ḏ-S¹bʾyn in polished stone; and may Tʾlb R- 18ymm grant [... ...] good harvests and crops in all their lands and fields 19[ ... ...] by Tʾlb Rymm, Master of Ḥdṯnn.
Chronological
Period: D
Physical
Support: Object → Artefact → Base → Of statue with dedicatory inscription
Materials: Stone
Measures: h. 57, w. 38, th. 8
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: Nāʿiṭ, ʿAmrān, Yemen
Ancient Name: Nʿṭm
Type of Site: Settlement
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