DASI ID: ID: 5959

Müller, Walter W. 1981: 356 (photo) Image free from copyright
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Translations:
1S¹ʿdtʾlb Ytlf, of the family Gdnm, kbr of the Arabs 2of the king of Sabaʾ and Kdt and Mḏḥgm and Ḥrmm 3and Bhlm and Zydʾl and all the Arabs of Sabaʾ, 4Ḥimyar, Ḥaḍramawt and Ymnt, dedicated to his Lord 5ʾlmqh, Lord of ʾwm, the statue in bronze in praise 6because, when His servant S¹ʿdtʾlb of Gdnm 7and his contingent of Arabs were sent as a garrison in Ns²qm against 8the Ḥaḍramawt, orders and commands were sent to them 9by their lord Ḏmrʿly Yhbr, king of Sabaʾ 10and ḏu-Raydān and the Ḥaḍramawt and Ymnt that they go on an expedition 11and wage war; let S¹ʿdtʾlb of Gdnm lead the tribe of 12Sabaʾ, the inhabitants of Mrb and the Arabs of Sabaʾ, Kdt, 13Ngrn and S¹fln, and they marched to the temple of 14Yġrw and their whole contingent waited for seven days. 15And they did not march until (they were) three hundred Sabaean soldiers 16and three hundred Arab soldiers and twenty 17horsemen, that they sent them 18as garrison in the town of Ns²qm and fifty horsemen 19joined them; and they went on expedition and plundered the town 20of Ṣwʾrn, and the inhabitants of Ṣwʾrn confronted them 21in the vicinity of the town of Ṣwʾrn, but the one of Gdnm and 22his contingent inflicted on them casualties, prisoners of war and civil prisoners 23and booty in great number, and after that they surrendered 24to them; and the soldiers of Ṣwʾrn made an expedition with them against 25the inhabitants of S²bm and Ṣdfn and confronted and fought with 26Ṣdfn and the inhabitants of S²bm in the vicinity of S²bm and killed 27among them seventy soldiers and (the rest) was routed towards their town 28and fortified there and they carried on the struggle with them for thirteen days 29until they surrendered; and after that, they made a raid and besieged 30Rṭġtm, S¹yʾn, Mrymtm and Ḥdb and made them surrender, 31and they made a raid up to ʿrʾhln and Trm and confronted with 32the inhabitants of Trm and they killed a great number of the inhabitants of Trm and 33they routed to their town, and they encircled them and besieged 34for twelve days, and devastated two thousand vineyards; and 35they offered their submission and asked for protection and gave pledges and surrendered to them and 36from there they made a raid to Dmn and Ms²ṭt and ʿr Klybm 37and surrendered to them, and so they took control of all the towns of the Ḥaḍramawt and of the 38Valley and from there then they went back home with spoils and 39war prisoners and civil prisoners and booty in great quantity; and they killed 40a thousand and three hundred (soldiers) in combat and made seven hundred war prisoners and 41three thousand civil prisoners; and they went back home to the town of Ẓfr 42to their lord the king, and brought with them ʾnmrm 43whom they had made the king of the Ḥaḍramawt and Rbʿt, son of Wʾlm and 44ʾfṣy, son of Gmn and Gs²m, son of Mlkm and ʾs¹dm, son of 45S¹lmn and ʿdyt, son of Nmrm and Qys¹m, son of Bs²rʾl and 46Bhṯm, son of S³kym and Ṯwbn, son of Gḏmt, those of Ṣdf and 47Ydʿ[...], the one of S¹ybn, and Qḍʿm, the one of S¹ybn, and four 48[... ...] and with them [… …] 49[... ...]
Translation Notes:
11ys¹bʾnn is in the plural while yqtdmn is in the singular. A scribal error should probably be envisaged (the omission of a conjunction w- before the name of the author of the text).
24mṭww ʿm-hmw: “zogen mit ihnen” (Nebes 2005: 354)
Chronological
Period: D
Physical
Support: Object → Artefact → Base → Of statue with dedicatory inscription
Materials: Stone
Decorations:
Figurative Subjects:
Symbol Shape: Totschläger
Subject Level 1: Symbol
Symbol Reference: God
Symbol Reference Text: ʾlmqh
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: Schreyer-Geukens, ZI 87
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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