DASI ID: ID: 6297
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"By kind permission of GOAM"
Text:
Translations:
1Yḥmʾl descendant of [.]rtn of the tribe Rym, vassals of 2the king dedicated to ʾlmqh, Master of ʾwm 3the statue in bronze that he promised to ʾlmqh, as 4soon as he and his brother Ḥywʿ- 5ṯtr would return in safety from the land of Ḥaḍramawt, when they 6campaigned to follow their lord S²ʿrm ʾwtr king 7of Sabaʾ and ḏu-Raydān, when he waged war in the land of Ḥa- 8ḍramawt, and may ʾlmqh grant them the safety 9of their persons and their cattle and perfect fruit crops and 10harvests, by ʾlmqh.
Chronological
Period: D
Physical
Support: Object → Artefact → Base → Of statue with dedicatory inscription
Materials: Stone
Measures: h. 25.5, w. 21, th. 14.7
Decorations:
Figurative Subjects:
Symbol Shape: Totschläger
Subject Level 1: Symbol
Symbol Reference: God
Symbol Reference Text: ʾlmqh
Letter Measure: 2.2
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: Ja 2112
Spatial
Site: Maḥram Bilqīs, Maʾrib, Yemen
Ancient Name: ʾwm
Type of Site: Religious area with a necropolis
Deposit:
settlement: Aden
institution: The National Museum
private Collection: false
identification Number: NAM 1619=AM 854
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