DASI ID: ID: 6059
Text:
Translations:
1ʾlʾmr Yhnb [... ... ] 2of the family S¹ḥr, dedicated to his 3Lord ʾlmqhw Ṯhwn, Lord of ʾwm, a statue 4in bronze in praise because He promised him 5to grant him a male child. In fact 6He granted His servant ʾlʾmr of S¹ḥr a child 7for him, his son Brlm, and indeed he offered 8to their Lord his dedication which 9he promised Him; may ʾlmqh grant him 10male children, and may He grant 11him the safety of their persons and may He grant 12them the goodwill and the satisfaction of their two lords Ys¹rm 13Yhnʿm and Ṯʾrn ʾyfʿ kings 14of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān and Ḥaḍramawt and Ymnt, 15and may He grant them fruits crops and harvests 16from their lands from Mrb and Ns²qm and 17Ns²n, and may He save them from the trickery and the malice and 18the calumny of the enemy, and from the wrath of the man; by 19ʾlmqh Ṯwn, Lord of ʾwm, and by ʿṯtr and S¹ḥr 20and their tutelary deity Ys¹rn and their two solar deities, 21the two Ladies of boundary marks.
Chronological
Period: D
Physical
Support: Object → Artefact → Base → Of statue with dedicatory inscription
Materials: Stone
Measures: h. 85.8, w. 32.8, th. 25.5
Decorations:
Figurative Subjects:
Symbol Shape: Totschläger
Subject Level 1: Symbol
Symbol Reference: God
Symbol Reference Text: ʾlmqh
Letter Measure: 2.8
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: MaMB 293
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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