DASI ID: ID: 6064

Jamme 1962 a: pl. 19 Image free from copyright
Text:
Translations:
1[... ...]s²bm and [... ...] 2[... ...] 3[... ...] in favour of their lord Ḏmrʿly 4Yhbr and his son Ṯrʾn Yhnʿm, kings of Sabaʾ 5and ḏu-Raydān and Ḥaḍramawt and Ymnt, and they praised 6the might and the power of their lord ʾlmqh because 7He saved and protected His servants, the tribe of Sabaʾ 8Khln, and because He granted them killings and prisoners 9of war and captives which are in great numbers, and which satisfied His servants, 10the tribe of Sabaʾ Khln, and from every city of 11S¹rrn which they forced to capitulate; may ʾlmqh continue to grant 12His servants, the tribe of Sabaʾ Khln, to behave in a praiseworthy way and 13to win success whenever their 14lords the kings of Sabaʾ and the descendants of ḏu-Raydān will order them; and 15may He grant them the goodwill and the satisfaction of their lord Ḏmrʿly 16Yhbr and his son Ṯʾrn Yhnʿm, 17kings of Sabaʾ, ḏu-Raydān, Ḥaḍramawt and 18Ymnt, and may He help them and save them 19from the maleficence and the malice of the enemy. By ʾlmqh Ṯhwn, Lord of ʾwm.
Chronological
Period: D
Physical
Support: Object → Artefact → Base → Of statue with dedicatory inscription
Materials: Stone
Measures: h. 72, w. 34.1, th. 18
Letter Measure: 2.6 (max.); 2 (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
Concordances: MaMB 236
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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