DASI ID: ID: 728
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"By kind permission of GOAM"
Text:
Translations:
1Krb[.] and his son Fs²ḥn dedicated to their Lady Rgbm Mistress of Ḥẓrn this 2sphinx (lit.: "Father of the howl"); and as for their Lady Bʿlt Ḥẓrn, may She assure their safety and the safety 3of their house and their properties, the great and the small ones, and may She turn away and unmask (?) 4all of their enemies.
Translation Notes:
The translation of thkyrn with "turn away" (lit.: "to make melt") refers sensu lato to the root kwr which, although never used with this sense in ASA (see kwr "hill" in SD: 80), in Semitic means "furnace, melting pot" (Leslau 1987: 300). The shift to y in the roots of II and III w is a phenomenon well attested in the inscriptions from the southern plateau. The second verb follows sensu lato as well the meaning of Ar. ʿajama at causative "he desires to make it clear" (Lane 1980: 1966).
Chronological
Period: C (conjectural)
Physical
Support: Object → Artefact → Sculpture in the round → Animal figure
Materials: Bronze
Measures: h. 15.6, w. 10.9, th. 4.4
Decorations:
Figurative Subjects:
Subject Level 1: Animal
Subject Level 2: Sphinx
Animal Gestures:
Recumbent
Part Of Animal Body: Complete figure
Linguistic
Language: Ancient South Arabian → Sabaic → Southern Middle Sabaic
Alphabet: Ancient South Arabian
Script Typology: Monumental writing
Textual Typology: Dedicatory text
Writing Techniques: Incision
Spatial
Site: Jabal al-ʿAwd, Ibb, Yemen
Ancient Name: ʿwdm
Type of Site: Settlement
Deposit:
settlement: Ibb
institution: Museum
private Collection: false
identification Number: MIbb 4
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