Hudhud
Hudhud Logo
𐩠𐩵𐩠𐩵
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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