GL1228_01

• Superior document: Squeezes
• Series: Squeezes
• Physical Description: 1 sheet
• Notes: Of the text preserved in this squeeze, only Lines 5-15 are legible, and then only partially. Since the initial part of the inscription is missing (and seems to have been so at the time when the squeeze was made), the identity of the dedicants are unknown--save only that it is clear from the historical context and the provenance of the inscription that they were of Sabaean extraction. That there were several dedicants is evident from the verb hqnyw "they granted", which appears here in the 3rd person masculine plural.

Text preserved in this squeeze:2.[… … … … … …]3.[… … … … … …]4.[… … … … … …]5.[… …] granted [… … …]6.[…] the king of Sabaʾ and his servant Saʿdtaʾla=7.[b … …] | a sound defeat when8.[… …] of Raydân and all the tribes of Raydân and9.[..]dshamsum and Marthadum and their two tribes which are in [..]10.made war […] Ṣanʿâʾ when11.Saʿdshamsum and [… ..] and their tribe [… ..] rose up12.[… …] and all [… …]13.[… …] the property of ʿAthtar and ʾخlmuquh [.]14.[… …] brought back within the authority of Taʾlab Riyâm[um]15.[…]because he granted them the annihilation and [.]Restored text of the inscription:1.[… … … … … …]2.[… … … … … …]3.[…] dedicated to their [pa]tron [Taʾlab Riyâmum,] 4 .[Lord of Turʿat,] this stat[ue of bronze with gratitude]5.[because] Taʾlab Riyâmum granted [Wahabʾîl] 6 .[Yaḥuz,] King of Sabaʾ, and his client Saʿdtaʾla-7.[b the inflic]tion of a sound defeat when8.[Dhamar]ʿalay of Raydân and all the tribes of Raydân and9.[Saʿ]dshamsum and Marthadum and their tribe which is in [..]10.made war […] Ṣanʿâʾ when11.Saʿdshamsum and Marthadum and their tribe [and Dha-]12.[marʿalay] of Raydân and all [the tribes of Raydân] rose up13.[… …] the property of ʿAthtar and ʾخlmuquh [.]14.[… …] brought back within the authority of Taʾlab Riyâm[um]15.[… because] he granted them the annihilation and [.]16.[… ..] and the infliction (of defeat) on Dhamarʿalay of Raydâ-17.[n and all the tribes] of Raydân and Saʿdshamsum and Ma-18.[rthadum and all] who came to their side. And they rendered gratitude be-19.[cause he (i.e. Taʾlab Riyâmum) protected] his [person] and the persons of all the men who20.[made war alongside] him. And may he grant them the esteem21.[and good pleasure of their lord] Wahabʾîl Yaḥuz, Ki-22.[ng of Sabaʾ and (whatever)] prosperity might come to them, past or future [.]23.[… … ..] and Hawfâʿamm and Makhṭarân and24.[… … …]r and Sukhaymum and Dhû-Khawlân and25.[… … By Taʾlab] Riyâmum.

Text preserved in this squeeze:2.[… … … … … …]3.[… … … … … …]4.[… … … … … …]5.[… ..]t | hwšʿ | t[… … …]6.[…] mlk | sbʾ | w-ʿbd-hw | sʿdtʾl=7.[b | b-hl]qḥn | mqḥ | ṣdqm | b-kn | tqdmw8.[…]ʿly | ḏ-rydn | w-kl | ʾšʿb | ḏ-rydn | w-9.[..]dšmsm | w-mrṯdm | w-šʿb-hmy | ḏ-b[..]10.[.]gn | ṣnʿw | b-kn | tnšʾy | w-tnš[ʾw]11.sʿdšmsm | w-[… ..] | w-šʿb-hm[… ..]12.[… …] | w-kl [… …]13.[… …]ḍ | mlk | ʿṯtr | w-ʾlmqh | [.]14.[… ..]b | yhṯb | l-ʾḏn | tʾlb | rym15.[…]ḏt | hwšʿ-hmw | b-ḥsm | w-[.]Restored text of the inscription:1.[… … … … … …]2.[… … … … … …]3.[…] hqnyw | [šy]m-hm[w | tʾlb | rymm]4.[bʿl | trʿt |] ḏn | ṣl[m | ḏ-ḏhbn | ḥmd=]5.[m | b-ḏ]t | hwšʿ | tʾlb | rymm | [whbʾl]6.[yḥz |] mlk | sbʾ | w-ʿbd-hw | sʿdtʾl=7.[b | b-hl]qḥn | mqḥ | ṣdqm | b-kn | tqdmw8.[ḏmr]ʿly | ḏ-rydn | w-kl | ʾšʿb | ḏ-rydn | w-9.[sʿ]dšmsm | w-mrṯdm | w-šʿb-hmy | ḏ-b[..]10.[.]gn | ṣnʿw | b-kn | tnšʾy | w-tnš[ʾw]11.sʿdšmsm | w-mrṯdm | w-šʿb-hm[y | w-ḏ=]12.[mrʿly] | ḏ-rydn | w-kl [|ʾšʿb | ḏ-rydn]13.[… …]ḍ | mlk | ʿṯtr | w-ʾlmqh | [.]14.[… ..]b | yhṯb | l-ʾḏn | tʾlb | rym15.[m | w-b-]ḏt | hwšʿ-hmw | b-ḥsm | w-[.]16.[… ..] | w-hlqḥn | ḏmrʿly | ḏ-ryd=17.[n | w-kl | ʾšʿb] | ḏ-rydn | w-sʿdšmsm | w-m=18.[rṯdm | w-kl |] ḏ-kn | kn-hmw | w-ḥmdw | b-19.[ḏt | hwfy | grb-]hw | w-grbt | kl | ʾns |20.[tqdmw | b-ʿm-]hw | w-l-sʿd-hmw | ḥẓ=21.[y | w-rḍw | mrʾ-h]mw | whbʾl | yḥz | m=22.[lk | sbʾ | w-l-]ḏt | nʿmt | w-tnʿmn | [.]23.[… … ..] w-hwfʿm | w-mḫṭrn | w-b24.[… … …]r | w-sḫymm | w-ḏḫwln | w-25.[… … | b-tʾlb |] rymm