Hudhud
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𐩠𐩵𐩠𐩵
ID: 5946
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Text:

Translations:

1Krbʿṯt Ydfṯ and S¹ʿdʿṯtr Ys¹kr, of the families Grt and
2ḏ-Zbnr w-Tzʾd, ʾqwl of the tribe Ḏmry, quarters of S¹mhrm,
3dedicated to ʾlmqh Ṯhwn, Lord of ʾwm, two statues in bronze,
4in praise because they came back and were safe their lords ʾls²rḥ
5Yḥḍb and his brother Yʾzl Byn, kings of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān, sons of Frʿm 
6Ynhb, king of Sabaʾ, with their army and their cavalry from the expeditions
7they made and fought against the Ḥbs²t and ʿkm and ḏ-S¹hrtm
8and all their supporters in S¹hrtn, and they returned from those expeditions
9and fightings in safety and with enemy casualties and spoils and prisoners and booty
10and loot in quantity, which satisfied and gratified their lords ʾls²rḥ 
11Yḥḍb and his brother Yʾzl Byn, kings of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān; in praise
12because His servant Krbʿṯt, of the family Grt, came back and was safe
13from those expeditions and fightings that they made and (during which) they accompanied their lords ʾls²rḥ 
14Yḥḍb and his brother Yʾzl Byn, kings of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān, in safety and with
15enemy casualties and prisoners and booty of which satisfied them; may ʾlmqh Ṯhwn, Lord
16of ʾwm, continue to destroy and humiliate and overwhelm and crush every enemy and ill-wisher of their lords
17ʾls²rḥ Yḥḍb and his brother Yʾzl Byn, kings of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān;
18in praise because ʾlmqh Ṯhwn, Lord of ʾwm, saved His servants
19Krbʿṯt and S¹ʿdʿṯtr, of the family Grt, in all the favours and requests and
20favourable oracles and good announcements that they had sought and requested from ʾlmqh Ṯhwn, Lord
21of ʾwm, in all the autumns and rainy seasons before this dedication; in
22praise because He granted and bestowed favours to His servants Krbʿṯt and S¹ʿdʿṯtr,
23of the family Grt, in the works and the completion they did and built and completed
24and finished off in their house, in the house of Grt in the town of Nʿḍ; may
25ʾlmqh Ṯhwn, Lord of ʾwm, continue to grant their servants Krbʿṯt
26and S¹ʿdʿṯtr, of the family Grt, the goodwill and the satisfaction of their lords ʾls²rḥ
27Yḥḍb and his brother Yʾzl Byn, kings of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān, and may He
28grant them soundness of faculties and material resources and healthy male
29children and abundance of spring and autumn and summer and winter
30and thunderstorms and rains and autumn harvests and good healthy crops
31in abundance in all their land that the family Grt have cultivated and will cultivate
32in the East and in the highland; may ʾlmqh Ṯhwn,
33Lord of ʾwm, deliver them from the malice and the maleficence and the envy and the slander of any enemy
34and evildoer, the one they are aware of and the one they are not aware of. By ʾlmqh Ṯhwn,
35Lord of ʾwm, and by their lords ʾls²rḥ Yḥḍb and his brother Yʾzl 
36Byn, kings of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān.

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
Concordances: ZI 26

Spatial

Site: Maḥram Bilqīs, Maʾrib, Yemen
Ancient Name: ʾwm
Type of Site: Religious area with a necropolis
Deposit:
settlement: Muscat
institution: The National Museum
private Collection: false

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