DASI ID: ID: 5902
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"CIAS: i, 57"
Text:
Translations:
.. ...] 1and the men [... ...] with him [..] 2the town of ʿbdn when the citizens of the 3town ʿbdn had consented to make their submission in favour of Ḥaḍramawt 4and to fortify their town, and Rbbm gave 5thanks because ʾlmqh granted 6[... ...] and the men with him, the town 7ʿbdn; and they placed in the town a garrison force 8and seized hostages from them; may ʾlmqh continue 9to grant to them prosperity and the goodwill 10and the satisfaction of their lord S²ʿrm ʾwtr king 11of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān son of ʿlhn 12Nhfn king of Sabaʾ, by ʾlmqh Master 13of ʾwm and their lord S²ʿr ʾwtr.
Translation Notes:
2-4Jamme translated the sentence nʿmw ... ... ḫys¹ b-ʿbr Ḥḍrmt as "avaient accepté de se séparer du Ḥaḍramawt", confronting ḫys¹ with Ar. ḫāsa "to break" and giving a negative sense to b-ʿbr. According to him, the lords of the town decided to separate from Ḥaḍramawt, so the author of the text came with the Sabaean army to reinforce the town and took hostages among the Ḥaḍrami people present in there.
For the translation of ḫys¹ "be submissive", see Beeston in CIAS: i, 56-58. Cf Ryckmans 1975: 216 "act perfidiously".
Chronological
Period: D
Range: 215 BCE - 230 CE
Physical
Support: Object → Artefact → Base → Of statue with dedicatory inscription
Materials: Stone
Measures: h. 46, w. 21, th. 11
Letter Measure: 2.2
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: Ir 35/B.1
Spatial
Site: Maḥram Bilqīs, Maʾrib, Yemen
Ancient Name: ʾwm
Type of Site: Religious area with a necropolis
Deposit:
settlement: Ṣanʿāʾ
institution: The National Museum
private Collection: false
identification Number: YM 391
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