DASI ID: ID: 5944
Text:
Translations:
1S²fʿṯt ʾs²wʿ and his son Zydm ʾymn 2 and of the third of Ḥs²dm ... 3the quarter of Rydt, dedicated to their Lord ʾlmqh 4Ṯhwn, Lord of ʾwm, this statue 5may He grant them the goodwill and the satisfaction of their lord 6S²mr Yhrʿs², king of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān, and 7in praise because He granted him the protection and the 8safety of His servant S²fʿṯt ʾs²wʿ of the family Hmdn 9and of Fys²n and S¹ʾrn from the expedition he undertook 10and conducted against the nomad groups of S¹fln and Yʾmm and of Qryt 11and Ḏʾbn and ʾrs²m, when they waged war on the land 12of Ḥs²dm, and he caught them at Kwrnhn, and they killed 13among them three hundred and twenty men, fatally wounded, 14and seized all their prisonsers and their booty; 15and from the expedition they undertook in Tdḥn against ʿkm 16and the expedition they undertook in ʿtwd and Rymm against Dwʾt, and they came back 17from all those expeditions with enemy casualties and spoils 18and prisoners and booty and loot that satisfy their hearts; 19may ʾlmqh Ṯhwn, Lord of ʾwm, grant them 20good undertakings and the goodwill and the satisfaction of the their lord S²mr 21Yhrʿs², king of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān, and may He grant them the safety of 22the persons of His servant S²fʿṯt ʾs²wʿ and his son 23Zydm of the family Hmdn and Fys²n and S¹ʾrn, and may He 24grant them good harvests in their valleys and their fields 25irrigated by canals and their cultivated areas, and may He deliver them from the subjection 26[... ...] of any enemy. By ʾlmqh, Lord of ʾwm.
Translation Notes:
2For the identification of the toponyms, see Ryckmans 1974 a: 500-502.
Chronological
Period: D
Physical
Support: Object → Artefact → Base → Of statue with dedicatory inscription
Materials: Stone
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: Ṣanʿāʾ
institution: al-Kuhālī collection
private Collection: true
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