Stone monument. Inscription GL495 (CIH457)

• Superior document: Glass plate negatives and -positives, photographs, negatives, film reels
• Author: Grohmann, Adolf
• Series: Glass plate negatives and -positives, photographs, negatives, film reels
• Physical Description: 1 photograph
• Notes: There is a hole in roughly the middle of this inscription, as a result of which some text in Lines 9-11 is missing. This portion of text can, however, be restored on the basis of other Sabaic inscriptions from roughly the same period which employ similar formulae.
• Audience: ITEM
• ac_no: AT-OeAW-BA-3-27-P-0852
• Hierarchical level: Monograph

1.Rabbîʾawwâm ʾAkhṭar and Rathad[thawân ... ... sons]2.of ʾAbîkarib of the lineage of Dhû-Saḥar [have dedicated to ʿAthta=]3.r and Saḥar, the two lords of Nafqâ(n) [... ...]4.eight statues for the well-being of their two lords, [Dhamarʿalî Yu=]5.habirr and his son Thaʾrân, the two kings of Saba[ʾ and Dhû-Raydân, and]6.for the well-being of their (i.e. the kings') two clients Rabbîʾawwâm and Rathadtha(wân) [and the lineage of Dhû-]7.Saḥar, and for the well-being of their households-the households of Dhû-[Saḥar, and]8.for the well-being of their crops and their [har]vests from their entire property,9.in every pl[ace, far] and near. And may10.ʿAthtar [Saḥar grant them the esteem and] good-pleasure of th[eir] two lords,11. Dhamarʿalî Yuhabirr and his son Thaʾrân, the two kings of [Sabaʾ]12.[and Dhû-Ra]ydân. And may ʿAthtar and Saḥar aid and pro-13.[tect] their two servants Rabbîʾawwâm and Rathadthawân and the lineage of Dhû-Sa-14.[ḥar and] their households and their crops from any harm15.[and mali]ce, and the enmity and malevolence of any enemy, far or [near].16.[By ʿAth]tar and Hawbas and ʾخlmuquh and by Dhât-Ḥi-17.[mâyim and by Dhâ]t-Buʿdânim and by ʿAthtar and Saḥar and by the (protective) sun-goddess of the18.[king-Tanû]f -and by their (i.e. the dedicants') two sun-goddesses, the mistresses of boundaries, [... ...]19.their […] Yâsirân. And they have committed their dedications to ʿAthtar and Sa[ḥar]. 1.rbʾwm | ʾḫṭr | w-rṯd[ṯwn | ... ... | bn=]2.w | ʾbkrb | bny | ḏ-sḥr | [hqnyw | ʿṯt=]3.r | w-sḥr | bʿly | nfq(n) | [... ...]4.ṯm<n>tn | ʾṣlmn | l-wfy | mrʾy-h(m)[w | ḏmrʿly | y=]5.hbr | w-bny-hw | ṯʾrn | mlky | sb[ʾ | w-ḏ-rydn | w-]6.l | wfy | ʾdm-hmw | rbʾwm | w-rṯdṯ(wn) | [w-bny | ḏ-]7.sḥr | w-l | wfy | ʾbyt-hmw | ʾbyt | ḏ-[sḥr | w-]8.l | wfy | ʾṯmr-hmw | w-[ʾfq](l)-hmw | bn | kl9.qny-hmw | b-kl | (b)[rṯm | rḥq]m | w-qrbm | w-l | [sʿ=]10.d-hmw | ʿṯtr | [w-sḥr | ḥẓy w-](rḍw |) mrʾy-h[mw]11.ḏmrʿly | yhbr | w-(bny-h)w | ṯʾrn | mlky | [sbʾ]12.[w-ḏ-r]ydn | w-ʿṯtr | w-sḥr | f-l | yhʿnnn | w-(m)[t=]13.[ʿn | ʿ]bdy-hmy | rbʾwm | w-rṯdṯwn | w-bny | ḏ-(s=)14.[ḥr | w]-ʾbyt-hmw | w-ʾṯmr-hmw | bn | bʾst(m)15.[w-nkyt]m | w-nḍʿ | w-šṣy | šnʾm | ḏ-rḥq | w-[qrb]16.[b-ʿṯ]tr | w-hwbs | w-ʾlmqh | w-b-ḏt | (ḥ=)17.[mym | w-b-ḏ]t | bʿdnm | w-b | ʿṯtr | w-sḥr | w-b-šms | (m=)18.[lkn | tn]f | w-b-šmsy-hmw | bʿlty | ʾwṯnm | [... ...]19.[hm]w | ysrn | w-rṯdw | hqnyt-hmw | ʿṯtr | w-s[ḥr]