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Remarks on the South-Arabian Inscriptions Hamilton 3–13

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

A. Jamme W.F.
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The South-Arabian inscriptions Hamilton 3–13, as well as a few small sculptures, were found by Major the Hon. R. A. B. Hamilton in Šabwat (Ḥaḍramawt) in 1938 and given to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, in 1952. Both sculptures and texts were published recently in this journal (April, 1954, pp. 43–63) by W. L. Brown and A. F. L. Beeston in a very interesting article on “Sculptures and Inscriptions from Shabwat”.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 88 , Issue 3-4 , October 1956 , pp. 146 - 156
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1956

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page 146 note 1 For Hamilton 1–2, cf. Beeston, A. F. L., “Two Shabwa Inscriptions,” in Le Muséon, 60 (1947), pp. 51–5Google Scholar, and pl. i; for ḍt/ḥṡwlm, a new name of the sun goddess mentioned in Hamilton, 2/2, of. my article “Une nouvelle épithète de la déesse solaire ḥaḍramoutique”, in Le Muséon, 61 (1948), pp. 59–64Google Scholar.

page 146 note 2 Except in Hamilton 13, the quotations from Beeston in the present article and not followed by the pagination, come from his letter of 26th October, 1954.

page 146 note 3 The drawing reproduced with this article is a little less than half the size of the original and shows the upper part of Hamilton 3, the entire specimens Hamilton 6 and 11, the text of Hamilton 10 and its last interior frame, and finally the texts of Hamilton 12. In the original drawing, in comparison with the photographs, Hamilton 3, 6, and 11 are at full scale; Hamilton 10 at half scale, and Hamilton 12 at double scale, because of the smallness of its inscriptions.

page 147 note 1 Cf. my article “Inscriptions de al-'Amâyid à Mâreb,” in Le Muséon, 68 (1955), pp. 314–7Google Scholar.

page 147 note 2 Cf. also Beeston, A. F. L., Sabaean Inscriptions, Oxford, 1937, pp. 71 and 72Google Scholar. Ryckmans', G. book Les noms propres sud-sémitiques (Louvain, 1934, i, 304)Google Scholar mentions nzḥt among the “noms de groupes ethniques”; this expression covers both clan and tribe names.

page 147 note 3 fyšn in CIH 418/2–3 (cf. Smith, Sidney, in Vetus Testamentum, ii, p. 287)Google Scholar, as object of msḫnt, cannot possibly be the name of an individual member of a group or class; and the word msḫnt refers to smh'ly.

page 147 note 4 Cf., e.g., Freytag, G. W., Lexicon arabico-latinum, p. 608 AGoogle Scholar; Kasimirski, A. de Biberstein, Dictionnaire arabe-français, p. 1234 A, andGoogle ScholarDozy, R., Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes, ii, p. 655 BGoogle Scholar.

page 147 note 5 Cf. Landberg, , ḥaḍramoût, Leiden, 1901, p. 721Google Scholar, and Glossaire daṭinois, Leiden, iii (1942), p. 2761Google Scholar (this latter also gives as secondary meaning of this root, first form, “to try”).

page 148 note 1 For mhr, of. also mhr “être habile”, tmhhr “travailler” and mahrat, pl. mihar “travail, métier” (Landberg, , Glossaire daṭinois, pp. 2722–3)Google Scholar.

page 148 note 2 Studien zur Lexicographie und Grammatik des Altsüdarabischen, Vienna, ii (1917), p. 14Google Scholar.

page 148 note 3 In CIH 99/9, the direct object of the three verbs is missing; for CIH 366, cf. Smith, S., in Vetus Testamentum, ii, pp. 285–6Google Scholar.

page 148 note 4 Beeston, A. F. L., Sabaean Inscriptions, p. 37Google Scholar: “and M'HRm took charge of (the building of) these altars.”

page 150 note 1 Cf. Landberg, , Ḥaḍramoût, p. 736Google Scholar, and Glossaire daṭinois, p. 2924; Rossi, E., L'arabo parlato a Ṣan'â’, Rome, 1931, p. 193Google Scholar A; “arrivare waṣul” and p. 201 A: “condurre waṣal.”

page 150 note 2 Studien, ii, p. 40.

page 150 note 3 The same expression is found in RÉS 2693/4–5 (Ḥaḍrami).

page 151 note 1 mbny in RÉS 2640/1; hbn' in RÉS 2687/2 and gsm in RÉS 3869/1. Cf. also RÉS 3535/2 (Minæan) where qtdm means “to command”.

page 152 note 1 Cf. M. Höfner, l.c., p. 168.

page 152 note 2 CIH 357/10–12 is not quite parallel to the present text.

page 152 note 3 Cf. M. Höfner, l.c., p. 184, § 139.

page 154 note 1 Cf. H. von Wissmann-M., Höfner, Beiträge zur historischen Geographie des vorislamischen Südarabien, Wiesbaden, 1953, p. 78Google Scholar.

page 154 note 2 In footnote 1 of p. 61 Beeston now suggests that the Qatabanian text Jamme 348 could be another example of this so-called “Ausanian type”. The year before, he suggested that this text “belongs to a period after the collapse of the independent qatabanian monarchy, when the Wâdî Beiḥân had come under sabæan suzerainty” (Le Muséon, 66 [1953], p. 178)Google Scholar. One archæological fact is much more important than any lexicographical consideration: namely, all the pieces found in Ḥeid bin 'Aqîl precede the final destruction of Timna'.