Hudhud
Hudhud Logo
𐩠𐩵𐩠𐩵
ID: 5959
Müller, Walter W. 1981: 356 (photo) Image free from copyright

Müller, Walter W. 1981: 356 (photo) Image free from copyright

Text:

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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