Hudhud
Hudhud Logo
𐩠𐩵𐩠𐩵
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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