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Jamme 1962 a: pl. 42 Image free from copyright

Jamme 1962 a: pl. 42 Image free from copyright

Text:

Translations:

1[... ...] and his sons [... ...]
2[... ...] ʾs¹ʾr, of the family S¹ḫymm,
3lords of the house Rymn, ʾqwl of the two tribes of 
4Yrs¹m of ḏ-S¹mʿy, the third of ḏ-Hgrm,
5and of Ḫwln Gddtn, dedicated to 
6their lord ʾlmqh Ṯhwn, Lord of ʾwm,
7a statue in bronze when ordered to him their lord
8Ṯʾrn Yhnʿm and his son Mlkkrb
9Yʾmn, the two kings of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān and
10Ḥaḍramawt and Ymnt, to conduct an expedition at the head of the army of ʿrbn,
11when was destroyed the dam in Ḥbbḍ and Rḥbm,
12and were destroyed all the part of the dam, that between Ḥbbḍ and
13Rḥbm, and were destroyed seventy s²wḥṭm of the dam;
14and they praised the power of their lord ʾlmqh
15Ṯhwn, Lord of ʾwm, because He granted them
16to favour them in His oracle, when He controlled for them
17the flash flood until they completed their work with stones; and 
18in praise of their lord ʾlmqh Ṯhwn, Lord
19of ʾwm, because He bestowed for them the favour they sought
20Him from; and may He continue to grant to them
21the favour and the goodwill of their two lords Ṯʾrn Yhnʿm
22and his son Mlkkrb Yʾmn, the two kings
23of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān and Ḥaḍramawt and Ymnt, and
24they repaired this damage in three months,
25that of Sabaʾ and ʾlʾlt and ʾbhy [... ...]

Translation Notes:

16Jamme translates k-yʾfqn "that He would reverse" (Ar. wafiqa); Beeston: "direct the right course" (Ar. ʾufq "horizon, limit"); Bron notes that in the north-western Semitic the root ʾFQ is used for water courses.

Chronological

Period: D

Physical

Support: Object → Artefact → Base → Of statue with dedicatory inscription
Materials: Stone
Measures: h. 76.6, w. 27, th. 23.5
Decorations:
Figurative Subjects:
Symbol Shape: Totschläger
Subject Level 1: Symbol
Symbol Reference: God
Symbol Reference Text: ʾlmqh
Letter Measure: 2.7

Linguistic

Language: Ancient South Arabian → Sabaic → Central Middle Sabaic
Alphabet: Ancient South Arabian
Script Typology: Monumental writing
Textual Typology: Dedicatory text (conjectural)
Writing Techniques: Incision
Concordances: MaMB 294+62, ZI 73

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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