DASI ID: ID: 5904
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"By kind permission of GOAM"
Text:
Translations:
1S²fnʾb and her daughter Ddt [...] 2ḥm of the tribe Fys²n, handmaids of the family Grt[..], dedicated 3to Almaqah Ṯhwn Master of Awām, a female statue 4in bronze, because S²fnʾb had come 5to make a pilgrimage to Almaqah when her daughter Ddt had been ailing 6in her breast for nine months, and S²fnʾb promised 7Almaqah that, as soon as her daughter Ddt should have recovered satisfactorily, 8she would bring her back to make the pilgrimage along with herself, so 9S²fnʾb did return to make the pilgrimage in (the month of) ḏ-Hbs¹, 10but her daughter Ddt did not go up with her: Ddt set out to accompany 11S²fnʾb, but turned aside to the sanctuary of Awām which is in 12the vicinity of Ṣanʿāʾ in a garment (? covering the breast?); so she was punished 13by Almaqah and He imposed on her a penance for two years. 14Now Almaqah has commanded them in His oracle that 15they should dedicate a statue; and may Almaqah vouchsafe them 16to deliver Ddt from this ailment, for her to (?go?) 17... ... do penance ...
Chronological
Period: D
Physical
Support: Object → Artefact → Base → Of statue with dedicatory inscription
Measures: h. 25, w. 17, th. 9
Decorations:
Figurative Subjects:
Symbol Shape: Totschläger
Subject Level 1: Symbol
Symbol Reference: God
Symbol Reference Text: ʾlmqh
Letter Measure: 1.3
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: Maḥram Bilqīs, Maʾrib, Yemen
Ancient Name: ʾwm
Type of Site: Religious area with a necropolis
Deposit:
settlement: Aden
institution: The National Museum
private Collection: false
identification Number: NAM 2494
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