DASI ID: ID: 515
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"By kind permission of GOAM"
Text:
Translations:
1Tbʿkrb [... ...] 2of bronze, whereby they praised [... ...] and fa- 3voured their lord ʾls²rḥ Yḥḍb [... ...] 4king of Sabaʾ, with the crushing, humiliation and overthrow of [... ...] 5had mustered and given battle in the open country (?) of Ḥq[l Ḥrmtm ? ... ...] 6the return of their lord in safety and [... ...] 7their lords ʾls²rḥ Yḥḍb and his brother Yʾzl Byn, kings of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān, sons of 8Frʿm Ynhb, king of Sabaʾ, to return [... ...] 9they undertook and waged in the land of Ḥimyar and Ḥ[... ...] 10ʾẓlm son of Zbnr to return in safety [... ...] 11his [lord] ʾls²rḥ Yḥḍb and his brother Yʾzl Byn [... ...] 12he campaigned and took the offensive with the troops who had been ordered by their (?) lords [... ...] 13[... ...] ʾẓlm son of Zbnr enemy casualties [... ...]
Chronological
Period: D
Mentioned Date: (half of 3rd cent. AD)
Physical
Support: Object → Artefact → Base → Of statue with dedicatory inscription
Materials: Stone
Measures: h. 28, w. 20.5, th. 9.5
Decorations:
Figurative Subjects:
Symbol Shape: Totschläger
Subject Level 1: Symbol
Symbol Reference: God
Symbol Reference Text: ʾlmqh
Letter Measure: 1.5
Linguistic
Language: Ancient South Arabian → Sabaic → Central Middle Sabaic
Alphabet: Ancient South Arabian
Script Typology: Monumental writing
Textual Typology: Dedicatory text (conjectural)
Writing Techniques: Incision
Concordances: RES 3884, Ja 115
Spatial
Site: Maʾrib, Maʾrib, Yemen
Ancient Name: Mryb / Mrb
Type of Site: Settlement
Deposit:
settlement: Aden
institution: The National Museum
private Collection: false
identification Number: NAM 1559=AM 60.1280
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