Hudhud
Hudhud Logo
𐩠𐩵𐩠𐩵
ID: 5953

Text:

Translations:

1S¹ʿdʾwm ʾs¹ʿd and his brother ʾḥmd ʾzʾd, of the family S¹ʾrn and Mḥylm, ʾqwl of the tribe Bklm, the quarter of Rydt, mqtwyy of Ns²ʾkrb Yʾmn Yhrḥb, king of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān, son of ʾls²rḥ Yḥḍb and Yʾzl Byn, kings of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān dedicated to ʾlmqh Ṯhwn, Lord of ʾwm, the statue in bronze which they gave Him as tithe from the not irrigated and the irrigated crops which He granted them in spring and in the harvest season of the seventh year of Mʿdkrb, son of Tbʿkrb, of the family Ḥzfrm;
2may ʾlmqh Ṯhwn, Lord of ʾwm, continue to grant to them good healthy crops and harvests that will satisfy them, from all their fields irrigated by canals and their valleys and their fields and their lands which grow summer crops and their cultivated lands and their vineyard and whenever His two servants S¹ʿdʾwm ʾs¹ʿd and his brother ʾḥmd ʾzʾd, of the family S¹ʾrn and Mḥylm, cultivated and will cultivate them and in all the land of their tribe Bklm, the quarter of Rydt; may He grant them the goodwill and the satisfaction of their lord Ns²ʾkrb Yʾmn Yhrḥb, king of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān, son of ʾls²rḥ Yḥḍb and Yʾzl Byn, kings of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān, and may He deliver them from the harm and the malice and the slander of any enemy. By ʾlmqh Ṯhwn, Lord of ʾwm.

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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