Hudhud
Hudhud Logo
𐩠𐩵𐩠𐩵
ID: 5978
Jamme 1962 a: pl. 5 Image free from copyright

Jamme 1962 a: pl. 5 Image free from copyright

Text:

Translations:

1ʾls²rḥ Yḥḍb and his brother Yzʾl Byn, kings of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān, sons of Frʿm 
2Ynhb, king of Sabaʾ, dedicated to ʾlmqh Ṯhwn, Lord of ʾwm, the two statues in silver, in praise 
3because He granted and vouchsafed to His servant ʾls²rḥ Yḥḍb, king of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān, to take reprisals on the Abyissinians and the people of 
4S¹hrtm, for the hostile actions they had committed in their villages in the valley of S¹hm. Thereupon ʾls²rḥ Yḥḍb, king
5of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān, declared war, and together with him part of his army and his ʾqwl, against the troops of the Abyssinians and their concentrations
6in the cultivated parts of the valley S³rdd, and then they came into conflict with those Abyssinians and the people of S¹hrtm at the two humps of Wdftn and Wdyfn,
7and the cultivated countryside of Lqḥ, and they came into conflict at those two humps with 25 patrols (comprising) Aksumites and Gmdn and
8ʿkm together with some patrols of the people of S¹hrtm; and in praise because they returned those and their ʾqwl and their arny and their
9cavalry in safety, and with glory, with prisoners and captives and loot and booty in great quantity, which satisfied them.
10And after they returned in the city of Ṣanʿāʾ, a delegation from Gmdn approached them in humiliation
11and with guarantees, and they offered their children as hostages, and (these) were (assigned) to the king of Sabaʾ; and as for the city of Lqḥ,
12they offered hostages and the equivalent of them (what Gmdn had offered); and may ʾlmqh Ṯhwn, Lord of ʾwm, continue to grant them favours 
13in the humiliation and crushing and overwhelming and humiliation of all their war enemies and personal enemies. By ʾlmqh Ṯhwn, Lord of ʾwm.

Chronological

Period: D

Physical

Support: Object → Stone piece
Materials: Stone
Measures: h. 54; w. max. 79.5 (top); w. min. 78.9 (bottom); th. 17.3
Decorations:
Figurative Subjects:
Symbol Shape: Totschläger
Subject Level 1: Symbol
Symbol Reference: God
Symbol Reference Text: ʾlmqh
Letter Measure: 3.3 (max.); 2.9 (min.)

Linguistic

Language: Ancient South Arabian → Sabaic → Central Middle Sabaic
Alphabet: Ancient South Arabian
Script Typology: Monumental writing
Textual Typology: Dedicatory text
Writing Techniques: Incision
Royal Inscription: Yes
Concordances: MaMB 153, ZI 59

Spatial

Site: Maḥram Bilqīs, Maʾrib, Yemen
Ancient Name: ʾwm
Type of Site: Religious area with a necropolis
Deposit:
settlement: Mārib
private Collection: false

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